GT10_00 – Project Organising General Track

The Project Organising track provides a platform to share and debate topical issues in the management of projects as temporary organisations and their context in organisations or interorganisational networks. This includes the management of single projects, mega-projects, programs, and project portfolios, as well as project-oriented organisations, which deliver projects to external or internal customers, and project networks or multi-enterprise meta-organisations created to deliver projects. We invite conceptual as well as empirical papers based on quantitative, qualitative or mixed methods. In our track, we run competitive sessions as well as development sessions, to help authors further develop their work.

UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)

Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation; Goal 7: Affordable and clean energy; Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth; Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure; Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities; Goal 13: Climate action

Primary Contact

Carl Marnewick – cmarnewick@uj.ac.za

ST10_01 – Multi-level Perspectives on Major and Megaprojects

Major projects are often complex endeavors, having many different structural arrangements and linkages with organizations and their wider institutional environments. Although research in project management has addressed the embeddedness of projects within their context, we need to understand the specificities of major and megaprojects’ institutional and organizational contexts, i.e. how actors collaborate, coordinate, and innovate in these temporary yet long-lasting, transformative and evolutive environments. This proposal raises the importance of understanding the multi-levelness of major projects; the interfaces among project actors, organisations and institutional levels; the governance issues, and the coordination of the people involved across these levels.

UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)

Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth; Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure; Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities

Primary Contact

Juliano Denicol – juliano.denicol@ucl.ac.uk

ST10_02 – Project and Society

This track explores how project management addresses ‘Grand’ challenges, focusing on sustainability, stakeholder engagement, and the potential ‘dark side’ of projects, such as corruption and modern slavery. It examines the bidirectional relationship between projects and society, highlighting how projects contribute to achieving goals like sustainable development, while also being shaped by societal pressures. Additionally, the emerging intersection between stakeholder governance and joint value creation is emphasized, pointing to a need for further research on cooperative structures in project organizations. We invite bold, innovative research that links the long-term vision of Grand challenges to the temporality of projects.

UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)

Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure; Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities; Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production; Goal 13: Climate action

Primary Contact

Francesco  Di Maddaloni – f.dimaddaloni@ucl.ac.uk