Design Methods and Practices for Research of Project Management

Beverly Pasian is Associate Professor, Utrecht University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands. She was the founding President of the Project Management Association of Canada and the first recipient of its Fellowship award. She was the Dutch representative for the IPMA International Research Management Board (2012-14), expert member on several research projects, chair of the Dutch National Research Group (2013-15) and was the academic program lead for the 2014 World Congress in Rotterdam.Rodney Turner is the author and editor of eighteen books, including The Handbook of Project-based Management and the Gower Handbook of Project Management. He was editor of The International Journal of Project Management from 1993-2018. He is a visiting professor at the University of Leeds, and honorary professor at the University of Warwick. Most recently he was Professor of Project Management at SKEMA Business School, in Lille France, SAIPEM Professor of Project Management at the Politecnico di Milano, and Professor and High-End Foreign Expert at Shanghai University. In 2004 he received a life-time research achievement award from the Project Management Institute, and in 2012 from the International Project Management Association.

’Beverly Pasian's book is extremely important and timely. It is also ambitious, and we should commend her for undertaking this mission. The book integrates under one roof a tremendous collection of research lessons and experience on how to investigate project management and how to better understand it in the future. The book should be highly recommended to different groups of researchers and educators. Nice and very relevant undertaking!’ Aaron Shenhar, Technological Leadership Institute, SPLWIN, Rutgers and Tel Aviv Universities ’The field of project management has come a long way in the last quarter of a century in improving the quality of its research and the rigour of the research methodologies on which it is based. However, it stands accused of being very narrow now. Project management research is based on rigorous methodologies, but a very narrow range of methodologies are used. Having now built a firm base, project management research now needs to move out into new areas to broaden the topics that can be investigated and the ways they can be investigated. In that we can find new insights into the field. This book will make an extremely valuable contribution into opening up the research horizons of project management. I would also like to use chapters as readings on my research management courses.’ Rodney Turner, Professor of Project Management, Kingston Business School, UK ’This book is a tour de force on research designs, methods and practices. It covers a wide range of foundational aspects, general and specific research approaches, mixed methods strategies, unique environment settings and state-of-the-art tools, such as social media. All presented by renowned researchers. Clearly a must have for every project management researcher.’ Reinhard Wagner, IPMA Vice President for Research ’Project Management is an interdisciplinary discipline that adopts and integrates theories and practices from organization management/behavioral science and oper

• Contents: Foreword; Introduction. Part I Foundational Issues: Project management research: addressingForeword Section 1 Where you can startChapter 1 Ontology, Epistemology and Axiology: Understand your philosophy and approachOle Jonny Klakegg, and Ida Marie TvedtChapter 2 Transferring from hunches to a compelling research topicDerek Walker and Beverley Lloyd-WalkerChapter 3 Critical engagement of previous researchSteven NijhuisChapter 4 The construction of research aims and questionsRodney TurnerChapter 5 Project management research ethicsHelgi Þór Ingason and Haukur Ingi Jónasson and Thordur Vikingur FridgeirssonSection 2 The value of mixing things upChapter 6 Mixed methods strategising in project managementKaryne AngChapter 7 Interview methodology for understanding projects, project management and temporary organisingAnette Hallin, Abo Akademi and Jenny HelinChapter 8 Case study research in project managementRodney TurnerChapter 9 Action research and project managementShankar Sankaran and Bob DickChapter 10 Experiment-based research in project and portfolio managementCatherine KillenChapter 11 Creating surveys to test theory in a project contextBlaize Reich and Andrew GeminoSection 3 Specific ideas foro emergent environmentsChapter 12 A novel method for exploring collaboration in project meetingsMona Abd Al-Salam, Catherine Killen and Perry ForsytheChapter 13 Narrative Inquiry in Project ManagementShankar SankaranChapter 14 Autoethnography: bridging the project manager-researcher divideRafaella Broft and Simon AddymanChapter 15 An agile approach to the real experience of developing research methodology and methodsHany Wells and Hedley SmythChapter 16 Researching project impact in smart cities: methodological considerationsBeverly PasianChapter 17 Integrating information modelling simulation for smart operation and management in hospitalsYongkui Li, Yan Zhang, Xihu Pan and Yilong HanChapter 18 Project management research in the era of artificial intelligenceSeyed Ashkan Zarghami, Jantanee Dumrak and Roslyn CameronChapter 19 Collaborating for studying projects: the example of welfare technology introduction in SwedenLucia Crevani, Michela Cozza and Silvia BruzzoneSection 4 Analyzing and publishingChapter 20 Critical thinking as a core project management skillAlexia NalewaikChapter 21 Analysing qualitative dataFrancesco Di MaddaloniChapter 22 Using text mining to validate qualitative findingsTracey Richardson and Jim MarionChapter 23 The urge to publish: Transforming your dissertation into a publicationsDarren DalcherChapter 24 Writing research papersKam Jugdev and John WyzalekSection 5 Considering the futureChapter 25 Mentoring: An essential aspect of researcher developmentDeepak Bajaj and Pooja BajajChapter 26 The future of project management research is complexLouis Klein