Martina Huemann

Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien | WU · Department of Strategic Management and Innovation

Organisations are increasingly implementing projects to respond to growing complexity and changes in their environments. Such organisations are referred to as project-oriented organisations. This organisation type has been described with regard to value-based, people-based and structure-based competencies. To strengthen the theoretical underpinning...

Purpose This paper aims to provide insights into the role of project management associations for the projectification of society from an institutional theory perspective. Design/methodology/approach The paper is based on a mixed methods approach. It draws on the research propositions of a recently conducted qualitative study and builds on them by...

Managing stakeholders is an essential part of complex project organizing. Stakeholder management is a key activity for creating value to project stakeholders and ensuring successful project delivery. However, previous research suggests that stakeholder management is challenging due to project complexity. While stakeholder management and project com...

Am Mittwoch, 2. Juni 2021, nahmen 50 Teilnehmer*innen an der ersten virtuellen D-A-CH Forschungswerkstatt teil. Dieses Kooperationsevent der drei deutschsprachigen IPMA® Vertretungen, pma – Projekt Management Austria, GPM – Deutsche Gesellschaft für Projektmanagement und spm – Swiss Project Management Association fand bereits zum 7. Mal statt. Heue...

While projectification of society has received attention in research, little has been done to exemplify underlying processes and actors involved. By applying institutional theory, we offer an explanatory avenue. Our explorative research advances the understanding of how project management associations influence the projectification of society. To a...

We develop a model of practices undertaken by project managers to address the challenges of organizational fields in an emerging economy context. We anchor the model in a qualitative study of project managers’ activities in a major construction industry firm in India. We make three contributions. First, our study illustrates how the micro activitie...

The epitome of the current time is the term crisis in different forms including social unrest, political conflicts, natural disasters, climate crisis, fatal or potentially fatal accidents, mass migrations, financial instabilities, and economic volatilities. The topic of crisis in project studies includes an important yet fragmented stream of resear...

Engaging project stakeholders and integrating their user knowledge plays an increasingly vital role in projects to ensure benefit creation of projects. Due to digitalisation new practices are evolving that allow for digital ways of integrating and interacting with future end users by analog and digital boundary objects. This paper focuses on identi...

Project managers experience unique careers that are not yet sufficiently understood, and more people than ever before are pursuing such careers. The research on project management and careers is therefore urgently needed in order to better understand the processes and systems shaping the careers of project managers. We address this gap by reviewing...

Projects are strategic and encounter strategic issues in their operating context that have not been addressed in parent corporate strategy. These strategic issues, emanating from changes in the operating context, require interpretation and an appropriate response through the emergence of strategy. This research looks at how projects address strateg...

Organizations have long been projectified, a trend taking hold in society more broadly resulting in a wider range of actors having an involvement in HRM on projects than heretofore. Theorists in mainstream HRM acknowledge the involvement of employees and line managers in HRM activities. In projects, a more diverse set of actors appears to be involv...

This exploratory research examines who supports what aspects of career development on projects. Our main finding is that, although project professionals receive support from formal and informal sources, a compensatory mechanism is at play. When support does not come from direct line managers, project professionals are compelled to initiate informal...

Sustainable social responsibility (SSR) toward multiple stakeholders is proclaimed as an obligation of firms rather than a voluntary deed. Keeping in view the stipulation of sustainability, this paper examines the influence of SSR on sustainable competitive position (SCP) and firm performance (FP) in the context of 307 Chinese small‐ and medium‐siz...

Digitalization and digital infrastructure plays an increasingly vital role in projects and project management. In construction projects the digital infrastructure, such as Building Information Modeling can be used for project stakeholder management, which enables multiple new ways of stakeholder engagement. With this paper we want to conceptualiz...

Project organizing is a core principle in many industries. Often conceptualized as temporary organizations (Burke and Morley, 2016), projects are established within and between organizational functions and span organizational boundaries, and populate networks. Projects are important sites of HRM activities (Keegan et al, 2017). We are interested in...

The chapter describes the importance of balancing risk reduction and "taken risks" and what role a holistic risk identification plays in the context of Sustainable Development (SD). It provides a theoretical background on SD, Risk Management and the Environmental Impact Analysis (EIA). It discusses the implementation of SD in the EIA as one example...

In this interview with Aaron Shenhar, Jeffrey Pinto and Graham Winch, we probe the influence of Rodney's work on the field as it is, in terms of how it is developing now, and how it will develop into the future. Based on three questions asked by the interviewer Martina Huemann we get insights about 1) What these three leading scholars consider to b...

We explore publishing trends regarding HRM and PBO in the main journals in the field of project management to highlight key empirical and theoretical contributions during the period 1996–2016. We offer three contributions to the field of project management. The first is theoretical where we analyze twenty years of research in key project management...

Digitalization is present in all areas of working life, with strong influence on the way projects are managed and facilitated by tools and practices. Digital project management in construction projects comes in the form of digital infrastructure, more specifically Building Information Modeling, which allows simulation, collaboration and management....

Sustainable development (SD) envisions business and their projects to deliver benefits to a broad group of stakeholders. Yet, projects are challenged to realize benefits to meet individual organization business objectives and value concerns. Given the benefits focus of SD, benefits realization helps to understand how SD can be integrated in the man...

Introduction Sustainable development (SD) is a strategic issue for organizations and integrates and impacts the management of projects at all levels of the project oriented-organization – strategic, portfolio, program, and project levels. The Rio Declaration on Environment and Development (UNCED, 1992) called on businesses to sustainably manage the...

Introduction It is increasingly common for work activities to take place in projects, and projects are therefore of growing importance as sites for career development, for leading and managing professional workers, and for individual and organizational development. Links between human resource management (HRM) activities that occur on projects, and...

We invite you to submit one or more papers for the Strategic Interest Group (SIG) Project Organising at the European Academy of Management Conference EURAM 2017 which will take place in Glasgow, 21-24 June 2017. The SIG on Project Organising provides an international platform to share and debate topical issues in the management of projects as tempo...

The global developments within society have an impact on all organizations and therefore also on temporary organizations, like projects. However, these temporary organizations are often managed differently than permanent organizations, as projects are more fluid and time restricted. Yet, they still need stakeholder resources, e.g. expertise and raw...

This paper debates upon the adoption of a social learning platform to support the highly dynamic industry of consumer electronics' providers, acknowledging the role of emerging technologies on the delivery of efficient lifelong learning solutions. The discussion is based on mixed research methods, in which structured interviews and online questionn...

Scope and purpose Project and program management is a growing area of research interest as organizations switch to project-based forms of working. There is growing concern for the performance of projects as they grow in scale and complexity. This SIG is focused on projects and programs defined as temporary organizations with a goal and pre-determin...

Purpose – As a transitional country and the newest EU Member State, Croatia is facing a more turbulent business environment, which imposes a need for change of companies seeking to achieve a competitive advantage. Being a labour-intensive business, adaptation of construction companies’ strategy strongly depends on the underlying values of their emp...

The chapter describes the importance of balancing risk reduction and “taken risks” and what role a holistic risk identification plays in the context of Sustainable Development (SD). It provides a theoretical background on SD, Risk Management and the Environmental Impact Analysis (EIA). It discusses the implementation of SD in the EIA as one example...

In this special issue on project stakeholder management, the aim is to advance the understanding of this topic by looking into theory outside the project management field and by presenting findings from case studies. In this overview article, we identify the theoretical roots of the stakeholder concept and the current state of the field. We point t...

According to research, stakeholder disappointment is a root problem within projects. In this article, the dilemmas related to stakeholder inclusiveness, in other words, engaging a broad range of stakeholders, are discussed. Based on a longitudinal case study, three propositions are offered: Applying stakeholder inclusiveness in a project (1) increa...

In this special issue on project stakeholder management, the aim is to advance the understanding of this topic by looking into theory outside the project management field and by presenting findings from case studies. In this overview article, we identify the theoretical roots of the stakeholder concept and the current state of the field. We point t...

According to research, stakeholder disappointment is a root problem within projects. In this article, the dilemmas related to stakeholder inclusiveness, in other words, engaging a broad range of stakeholders, are discussed. Based on a longitudinal case study, three propositions are offered: Applying stakeholder inclusiveness in a project (1) increa...

Nachhaltige Entwicklung ist ein gesellschaftlicher Such- und Lernprozess, in dem die Integration ökonomischer Aspekte eine wesentliche Rolle spielt. Es geht um globale Fragestellungen, um Unternehmensverantwortung und Management, um ökologische und soziale Themen und um Instrumente für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung. Die Autorinnen und Autoren unters...

Organizations regularly assume that the culture, values, dynamic and organization of their temporary project organizations are merely a smaller version of the original parent. Given that project organizations are made up of people and teams drawn, in most cases, from outside and inside the parent, these assumptions are nonsensical. But they do expl...

The consideration of Sustainable Development (SD) becomes more and more important for investments and the projects which implement those investments. In the project initiation process, the decision regarding the realization of an investment is made. Analyzing the investment is one of the main tasks of the project initiation process. Thus, this proc...

Seit vielen Jahren wächst die Bedeutung des Projektmanagements kontinuierlich. Mit ihr steigt der Anteil der Beratung von Organisationen im Projektmanagement. Ungeklärt ist jedoch bislang, welche Faktoren solchen Beratungsprojekten zum Erfolg verhelfen. Um was geht es bei der Beratung von Organisationen im Projektmanagement? Welche Anforderungen s...

The best available research evidence and case-derived wisdom can be transferred across HRM contexts. In Advancing Human Resource Project Management, the experts describe what works across the board for HR projects. There is considerable value in learning the ropes from high-profile experts who are in the thick of human resource management at firms...

The purpose of this book is to present the results of the PMI sponsored Research Project: SustPM, which was carried out between 2010 and 2012 in cooperation between Projektmanagement Group and Research Institute for Managing Sustainability both WU Vienna. This book provides viable approaches to consider sustainable development principles in the pro...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze how various approaches to stakeholder management, as well as sustainable development principles, are included in internationally‐used project management standards; and to consider the demands these approaches and principles place on project stakeholder management. Design/methodology/approach An analy...

The chapter reports on the case study project of the Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) of a wind park farm in Brazil from the supplier perspective of Siemens Ltd. In the case study, researchers, together with practitioners, further developed project stakeholder analysis by explicitly integrating Sustainable Development (SD) principle...

This chapter proposes a conceptual framework for integrating project strategy for Sustainable Development (SD) within the context of corporate sustainability strategy. Project SD strategy is the missing link between SD at the corporate level and project level. The framework draws on a literature review of concepts, definitions, and theories in stra...

This chapter proposes a conceptual framework for integrating project strategy for Sustainable Development (SD) within the context of corporate sustainability strategy. Project SD strategy is the missing link between SD at the corporate level and project level. The framework draws on a literature review of concepts, definitions, and theories in stra...

The consideration of Sustainable Development (SD) becomes more and more important for investments and the projects which implement those investments. In the project initiation process, the decision regarding the realization of an investment is made. Analyzing the investment is one of the main tasks of the project initiation process. Thus, this proc...

The topic of what human resource management (HRM) responsibilities are devolved from the HRM department to line managers has attracted much interest in recent years. We report findings from a study on the devolution of HRM practices in four project-oriented companies (POCs) and argue that although HRM practices are carried out beyond the HRM depart...

In the "Project-oriented Company (POC)" project management (pm-)competences are not just required by individuals, but also by project teams and by the organisation overall. These competences have to correlate. The pm-competences e.g. of individuals performing project roles, such as project owner, project manager, or project team member, have to be...

Im Projektmanagement hat bisher keine substantielle Auseinandersetzung mit den Prinzipien nachhaltiger Entwicklung stattgefunden. Derzeit arbeiten Expert(inn)en aus Nachhaltigkeitsforschung und Projektmanagement gemeinsam an einem konzeptionellen Rahmen, neuen Instrumenten und ersten Fallstudien.

Modern project management had its genesis in the field of operations research in the late 1940s, but today it is a much more diverse subject. It has evolved and developed a much wider range of methods, techniques, and skills that the project manager can draw upon. Not all these skills are relevant to every project, but an assortment of them will b...

Modern project management had its genesis in the field of operations research in the late 1940s, but today it is a much more diverse subject. It has evolved and developed a much wider range of methods, techniques, and skills that the project manager can draw upon. Not all these skills are relevant to every project, but an assortment of them will b...

The paper reports on a longitudinal multi method case study of a company from the telecommunication industry. The company has developed into a project-oriented company during the last 12years (1997–2009). In this paper the development is analyzed and structured into phases. The limits of planning and managing change processes in practice are reflec...

As part of a wider study into human resource management (HRM) practices in project-oriented organizations, we investigated the issue of employee well-being. Project-oriented organizations adopt temporary work processes to deliver products and services to clients. This creates a dynamic work environment, where additional pressures can be imposed on...

From Quality Control to Continuous Quality Improvement Overview on Quality Management Methods in the Project-Oriented Company Quality Standards for Projects and Programs Quality Management in Projects and Programs Management Audits and Reviews of Projects and Programs The International Project Management Award Quality Management in the Project-Orie...

Human Resource Management in the Context of the Project-Oriented Society Project Management Personnel Processes of Human Resource Management The Role of the PM Office in HRM Summary References and Further Reading