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Making sense of collaboration in major infrastructure construction projects

Project Leadership and Society Pub Date : 2025-01-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.plas.2025.100178

Christoffer Rönndahl , Petra Bosch-Sijtsema , Rasmus Rempling , Mats Karlsson

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The holistic view in forecasting: A conceptual framework to analyze and mitigate cost underestimation arising from optimism bias

Project Leadership and Society Pub Date : 2025-01-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.plas.2025.100177

Giuseppe Sassano

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Mitigating the negative aspects of project work: The roles of psychological capital and coworker and family support

Project Leadership and Society Pub Date : 2025-01-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.plas.2025.100176

Maria Magdalena Aguilar Velasco, Andreas Wald

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Taking a Selfie: Researcher-practitioner positionality and reflexivity in project scholarship

Project Leadership and Society Pub Date : 2024-12-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.plas.2024.100175

Simon Addyman

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Game research by design in project management and beyond

Project Leadership and Society Pub Date : 2024-12-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.plas.2024.100174

Maria Freese , Geertje Bekebrede

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Practical wisdom for leading projects; The case of early warning signs

Project Leadership and Society Pub Date : 2024-12-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.plas.2024.100173

Graham M. Winch , Sara Hajikazemi

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Bridging change and project management: A review and future research directions

Project Leadership and Society Pub Date : 2024-12-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.plas.2024.100172

Elina Jääskä, Kirsi Aaltonen, Liina Hellens, Jaakko Kujala

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Cost estimation in major public projects’ front-end phase: An empirical study on how to improve current practices

Project Leadership and Society Pub Date : 2024-12-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.plas.2024.100171

Helene Berg , Anne Strand Alfredsen Larsen , Ole Jonny Klakegg , Morten Welde

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Call for papers: Using AI to drive transformation in project leadership and society

Project Leadership and Society Pub Date : 2024-12-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.plas.2024.100165

Qing Yang , Francesco Di Maddaloni , Antonio Calabrese , Jianfeng Zhao , Xingqi Zou

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Using websites and social media to support local community stakeholder attendance at project town hall meetings

Project Leadership and Society Pub Date : 2024-12-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.plas.2024.100164

Anna Lund Jepsen , Pernille Eskerod , Kon Shing Kenneth Chung , Jingbo Zhang , Mauro Ortiz

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