Design Methods and Practices for Research of Project Management

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.

Beverly Pasian has turned her career to creative and socially responsible dimensions of project management research during the past 10 years. Research method design, gender leadership of projects and quality-of-life achievement in smart city development are at the top of this list. New publications are coming in each along with ongoing profiling of smart city projects and the cities that sponsor them. Association leadership continues within the Special Interest Group (Smarter Cities) of the International Project Management Association, on the Board of Governors of the IEEE Smart Cities Technical Community and as conference chair of the European Technology Management Conferences. Always eager to collaborate, Beverly welcomes contact from anyone who shares these interests! Rodney Turner is the author or editor of 18 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, 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 lifetime research achievement award from the Project Management Institute and, in 2012, from the International Project Management Association.

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 for strategising in project management research 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 James Marion and Tracey Richardson 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