Project Organising

Project Organising

 

Main supporters:

Project Management Institute (PMI)

Association for Project Management (APM) 

International Project Management Association (IPMA)

Scope and purpose

The Project Organising SIG aims to promote state of the art thinking, creation of knowledge and facilitation of debate on all aspects related to project organising. We intend to enhance the scholarly and managerial understanding of projects, programmes, megaprojects as well as project-based organisations by providing a platform for dialogue, collaboration and networking. Our ambition is to build an open global and divers community of researchers interested in the organisation of projects across all sectors and disciplines. By doing so we will be able to move our discipline forward and attract contributions from new and established scholars.

Vision

We promote the creation and diffusion of knowledge in relation to project organising. Our ambition is to develop a global project organising research community leaning on management and organization disciplines like strategy, entrepreneurship, organization theory, organizational behaviour and institutional theory, but also open to contributions from other disciplines. We therefore aim to stimulate discussion about a variety of topics related to the organization of projects and programs across all sectors.

Publication possibilities

The Project Organising Track has a close cooperation with the four leading Project Management journals. 

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Paper and Reviewer Awards

The best paper awards honour the best paper and the best student paper of the Project Organising SIG. These prizes are sponsored by the Project Management Institute. 

PO SIG Best Paper Award EURAM 2025 (sponsored by PMI)

A relational-processual view of governing complex interorganizational networks by Sorin Piperca, Serghei Floricel (this paper also won the EURAM Best Paper Award)

PO SIG Best Student Paper Award EURAM 2025 (sponsored by PMI)

Paradoxes in Grand Challenge Projects: Are We Playing Whac-A-Mole? by Ning Sun, Jing Xu, Martina Huemann, Yadi Li, Yan Ning

Furthermore, the PO SIG Best Reviewer Award EURAM 2025 (sponsored by APM) was given to:

Charlotta Linse, KTH, The Royal Institute of Technology

Emerald Group Publishing sponsored in 2025 a Best Paper Award in Multilevel Perspectives on Major and Megaprojects Track

Major program trajectories: Theorizing dynamic polarization by Serghei Floricel, Daniele Mascia, Antonio Daood

and a Best Student Paper Award in Multilevel Perspectives on Major and Megaprojects Track

Causal mechanisms in the transition to construction ecosystems and implications for the role of infrastructure owner organisations by Daniel Woodier, Christian Thuesen

IPMA sponsored in 2025 a Best Paper Award in Project & Society Track

Major program trajectories: Theorizing dynamic polarization by Serghei Floricel, Daniele Mascia, Antonio Daood

Impactful projects: forward co-creation of new collaborative practices in circular construction projects by Alfons van Marrewijk, Mart van Uden, Claire Brouwer, Hans Wamelink, Erwin van Hurkens, Ellen van Bueren           

and a Best Student Paper Award in Project & Society Track

Paradoxes in Grand Challenge Projects: Are We Playing Whac-A-Mole? by Ning Sun, Jing Xu, Martina Huemann, Yadi Li, Yan Ning

Congratulations to all recipients of these awards. All members of the Project Organising SIG wish to express their sincere thanks to our sponsors who, year after year, continue to encourage excellence in the research on the management of projects.

              

 

SIG roles

SIG board for 2025/26
Maude Brunet, HEC Montréal, Canada (Chair), maude.brunet@hec.ca 
Luca Sabini, Leeds University, United Kingdom  (Chair-Elect), l.sabini@leeds.ac.uk 
Carl Marnewick, University of Johannesburg, South Africa (Programme Chair), cmarnewick@uj.ac.za 
Lauri Vuorinen (General Track Chair), lauri.vuorinen@utu.fi 

Communication and social media officer: Sujuan Zhang, University of Sydney, Australia sujuan.zhang@sydney.edu.au


(left to right: Sujuan Zhang, Lauri Vuorinen, Carl Marnewick, Maude Brunet, Luca Sabini, Christine Unterhitzenberger)

Professional Development Support Officers 2025/26
Alfons van Marrewijk, VU Vrije University Amsterdam, Netherlands
Tristano Sainati, BI Norwegian Oslo, Norway

Past Chairs, but still active
Christine Unterhitzenberger, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Per Svejvig, Aarhus University, Denmark
Tuomas Alhoa, Tampere University, Finland
Alexander Kock, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
Martina Huemann, WU Vienna, Austria

Graham Winch, Manchester Business School, UK
Miia Martinsuo, University of Turku, Finland
Hans Georg Gemünden, Berlin University of Technology, Germany
Rodney Turner, SKEMA Business School, France
Christophe Midler, École Polytechnique, France
Brian Hobbs, University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada

Past members of SIG board, but still active
Monique Aubry, ESG UQAM Montréal, Canada
Pernille Eskerod, Webster Vienna Private University, Austria

SIG contact 2025/6: Maude Brunet, maude.brunet@hec.ca

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