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.
Table of Contents:
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
About the Author :
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.
