Design Methods and Practices for Research of Project Management

by Beverly Pasian (Editor), Rodney Turner (Editor)

Overview

Design Methods and Practices for Research of Project Management is the most comprehensive guide on how to do research on and in project management. Project management as a discipline has experienced near-exponential growth in its application across the business and not-for-profit sectors. This second edition of the authoritative reference book offers a substantial update on the first edition with over 60% new content and so provides both practitioner and student researchers with a fully up-to-date and complete guide to research practice on project management.

In Design Methods and Practices for Research of Project Management, Beverly Pasian and Rodney Turner have brought together 26 original chapters from many of the leading international thinkers in project management research. The collection looks at each step in the research stages, including research strategy, management, methodology (quantitative and qualitative), and techniques as well as how to share and publish research findings. The chapters offer an international perspective with examples from a wide range of project management applications; engineering, construction, megaprojects, high-risk environments, and social transformation. Each chapter includes tips and exercises for the research student, as well as a complete set of further references.

The book is the go-to text for practitioners undertaking research in companies, and also doctoral and master’s students and their supervisors who are involved in research projects in and for universities.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032744964
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/23/2024
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Beverly Pasian is an active educator, researcher and association leader in the project management community - taking seriously the trio of roles she considers essential to a meaningful career in the academy. Beyond this book, various international research projects and publications and IPMA leadership roles, as Chair of the Dutch National Research Group, her priority is to bring the community's attention to the human factors of project management through the creation of an international research center in the Netherlands.

Table of Contents

Contents: Foreword; Introduction. Part I Foundational Issues: Project management research: addressing

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

 

Editorial Reviews

’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

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