Publicly funded collaborative research, development, and innovation (CRDI) projects are increasingly promoted to tackle key societal challenges. However, the success of these projects is difficult to appraise, and the role of project management offices (PMOs) to potentiate the project success is not well understood. This study contributes to the debate about the effectiveness of projects in research and innovat...
The rapid evolution of artificial intelligence is pressing the need to understand how organisations can integrate it into namely project management to enhance performance and outcomes. Through a systematic literature review, this paper explores artificial intelligence's potential use in project management. The thematic analysis of relevant literature identified key project management knowledge areas, such as in...
Measuring the impacts of collaborative projects between industry and academia raises significant challenges. It involves stakeholders with different outlooks and impact expectations. Moreover, the multidimensional nature of the impacts themselves means they are tangible and intangible, short- and long-term, direct and indirect, positive and negative, making their measurement process very complex. To gain a deep...
Stakeholder engagement in collaborative research and innovation projects poses significant challenges, particularly in complex, multistakeholder settings addressing sustainability concerns. This study proposes a novel method for stakeholder prioritization in such projects, combining the analytic network process (ANP) tool with the sustainability categories of the P5 standard for sustainability in project manage...
This paper aims to enhance our understanding of project management (PM) in collaborative Research & Development & Innovation (R&D&I) projects by analysing the fit between the use and usefulness of 35 PM practices. Research results include quantitative data analysis of 465 responses to an online survey questionnaire, complemented by a qualitative data analysis of 12 semi-structured interviews. The study identifi...
The intersection between sustainability and project management has received significant attention as organizations recognize the criticality of incorporating sustainability practices into their projects. However, incorporating sustainability considerations presents some challenges, requiring the development and adoption of methods, tools and techniques tailored to address sustainability at the project level. Ag...
The benefits of risk management in the context of project portfolios have been widely recognized in the literature. However, approaches that assess the risk of organizational development project portfolios from the perspective of how the portfolio delivers value to the parent organization remain largely unexplored. To address this gap, our research takes a constructivist approach and an organizational perspecti...
Collaborative Research and Development and Innovation (R&D&I) projects provide special challenges in understanding and expressing the value of project management (PM) practices to deliver stakeholders’ expected benefits. This study aimed to contribute to understanding the relevance of PM practices on collaborative R&D&I projects’ success from the perspective of firms, higher education institutions, and other re...
Collaborative Research and Development and Innovation (R&D&I) projects make an essential contribution to the development of knowledge-based, innovative products, processes, and services. The main objective of this paper is to gain a comprehensive understanding of project management (PM) in collaborative R&D&I projects, examining the usefulness of PM practices. The results are based on 465 valid responses from a...
The benefits of risk management in the context of project portfolios have been widely recognized in the literature. However, approaches that assess the risk of organizational development project portfolios from the perspective of how the portfolio delivers value to the parent organization remain largely unexplored. To address this gap, our research takes a constructivist approach and an organizational perspecti...