Design Methods and Practices for Research of Project Management

ISBN-13: 9781032744964 / Twarda / 2024 / 368 str.

Opis

This second edition of the book provides a complete guide to research practice on project management.

Spis treści

Foreword

 

Section 1 Where you can start

 

Chapter 1 Ontology, Epistemology and Axiology: Understand your philosophy and approach

Ole Jonny Klakegg, and Ida Marie Tvedt

 

Chapter 2 Transferring from hunches to a compelling research topic

Derek Walker and Beverley Lloyd-Walker

 

Chapter 3 Critical engagement of previous research

Steven Nijhuis

 

Chapter 4 The construction of research aims and questions

Rodney Turner

 

Chapter 5 Project management research ethics

Helgi Þór Ingason and Haukur Ingi Jónasson and Thordur Vikingur Fridgeirsson

 

Section 2 The value of mixing things up

 

Chapter 6 Mixed methods strategising in project management

Karyne Ang

 

Chapter 7 Interview methodology for understanding projects, project management and temporary organising

Anette Hallin, Abo Akademi and Jenny Helin

 

Chapter 8 Case study research in project management

Rodney Turner

 

Chapter 9 Action research and project management

Shankar Sankaran and Bob Dick

 

Chapter 10 Experiment-based research in project and portfolio management

Catherine Killen

 

Chapter 11 Creating surveys to test theory in a project context

Blaize Reich and Andrew Gemino

 

Section 3 Specific ideas foro emergent environments

 

Chapter 12 A novel method for exploring collaboration in project meetings

Mona Abd Al-Salam, Catherine Killen and Perry Forsythe

 

Chapter 13 Narrative Inquiry in Project Management

Shankar Sankaran

 

Chapter 14 Autoethnography: bridging the project manager-researcher divide

Rafaella Broft and Simon Addyman

 

Chapter 15 An agile approach to the real experience of developing research methodology and methods

Hany Wells and Hedley Smyth

 

Chapter 16 Researching project impact in smart cities: methodological considerations

Beverly Pasian

 

Chapter 17 Integrating information modelling simulation for smart operation and management in hospitals

Yongkui Li, Yan Zhang, Xihu Pan and Yilong Han

 

Chapter 18 Project management research in the era of artificial intelligence

Seyed Ashkan Zarghami, Jantanee Dumrak and Roslyn Cameron

 

Chapter 19 Collaborating for studying projects: the example of welfare technology introduction in Sweden

Lucia Crevani, Michela Cozza and Silvia Bruzzone

 

Section 4 Analyzing and publishing

 

Chapter 20 Critical thinking as a core project management skill

Alexia Nalewaik

Chapter 21 Analysing qualitative data

Francesco Di Maddaloni

 

Chapter 22 Using text mining to validate qualitative findings

Tracey Richardson and Jim Marion

 

Chapter 23 The urge to publish: Transforming your dissertation into a publications

Darren Dalcher

 

Chapter 24 Writing research papers

Kam Jugdev and John Wyzalek

 

Section 5 Considering the future

 

Chapter 25 Mentoring: An essential aspect of researcher development

Deepak Bajaj and Pooja Bajaj

 

Chapter 26 The future of project management research is complex

Louis Klein

 

O autorze

 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.