Browsing BI Open by Author "Müller, Ralf Josef"

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    • Balancing leadership in projects: Role of the socio-cognitive space 

      Drouin, Nathalie; Müller, Ralf Josef; Sankaran, Shankar; Vaagaasar, Anne Live (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Balanced leadership has emerged as a contemporary theory of the dynamics in the continuous transfer of leadership authority between project managers and team members in projects. This article addresses the cognitive ...

    • Balansert lederskap 

      Vaagaasar, Anne Live; Müller, Ralf Josef (Journal article, 2020)
      Denne artikkelen diskuterer hvordan man kan kombinere vertikalt og horisontalt lederskap effektivt i prosjekter, altså hvordan lederskapet i prosjektet kan skifte mellom teammedlemmer og den formelt utpekte prosjektlederen ...

    • Choosing suitable project control modes to improve the knowledge integration under different uncertainties 

      Lin, Lin; Müller, Ralf Josef; Zhu, Fangwei; Liu, Hanwen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      This paper examines how to design project control modes to improve knowledge integration under different types of uncertainty. Uncertainty can be the precondition of project control choice, and it gives rise to the differing ...

    • Climbing to the top: Personal life stories on becoming megaproject leaders 

      van Marrewijk, Alfons; Sankaran, Shankar; Drouin, Nathalie; Müller, Ralf Josef (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      This paper captures a better understanding of the career development of people leading megaprojects through the use of biographical research method. The characteristics of megaprojects cause serious and diverse challenges ...

    • Collective Mindfulness: The Key to Organizational Resilience in Megaprojects 

      Wang, Linzhuo; Müller, Ralf Josef; Zhu, Fangwei; Yang, Xiaotian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      The complexity, internal and external risks, and significant social impact of megaprojects make their organizational resilience particularly important. To survive potential adversities, megaproject organizational resilience ...

    • Creating a ‘ sustainability sublime ’ to enable megaprojects to meet the United Nations sustainable development goals 

      Sankaran, Shankar; Müller, Ralf Josef; Drouin, Nathalie (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Despite cost and schedule overruns and benefits shortfalls, megaprojects (which are large-scale projects that typically cost over a billion dollars and take years to develop and build) continue to be promoted and built ...

    • Crises and Coping Strategies in Megaprojects: The Case of the Islamabad–Rawalpindi Metro Bus Project in Pakistan 

      Iftikhar, Rehab; Müller, Ralf Josef; Ahola, Tuomas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      This study focuses on crises in megaprojects and on the strategies used to cope with them. The context examined is the Islamabad–Rawalpindi Metro, a megaproject in Pakistan. Our empirical data comprise semistructured ...

    • Energy justice issues in renewable energy megaprojects: implications for a socioeconomic evaluation of megaprojects 

      Sankaran, Shankar; Clegg, Stewart Roger; Müller, Ralf Josef; Drouin, Nathalie (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Global responses to sustainable development programs that are aimed at tackling climate change have a heightened necessity in the wake of Covid-19 and its impact on vulnerable populations. The UN Sustainable Development ...

    • Exploring the Effects of Horizontal Leaders’ Presence on Team Members’ Job Burnout: A Moderated Mediation Model 

      Liu, Bingsheng; Wu, Guobin; Müller, Ralf Josef; Chen, Haitao; Li, Ling (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      This research aims to link leadership and employees’ well-being in the architecture, engineering, and construction (A/E/C) industry while focusing on horizontal leadership, which is displayed by subordinates, and job burnout ...

    • Exploring the future of research in project management 

      Müller, Ralf Josef (Journal article, 2023)
      This paper challenges what it calls the SEMANTIC DETERMINIST HYPOTHESIS (SDH) of argument licensing, according to which the syntactic realisation of a verb’s arguments is a function of its semantic properties. Specifically, ...

    • Exploring the relationship between leadership and followership of Chinese project managers 

      Li, Haoran (DUT); Zhao, Zhenzhi; Müller, Ralf Josef; Shao, Jingting (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Purpose – Followership is the free will recognition of leadership in the commitment towards realization of the collectively adopted organization vision and culture. The purpose of this paper is to identify the relationship ...

    • Facilitating ambidexterity of efficiency and flexibility in project-based organizations: An exploratory study of organizational antecedents 

      Sun, Xiuxia; Zhu, Fangwei; Sun, Mouxuan; Müller, Ralf Josef; Yu, Miao (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Through an exploratory multiple-case study in the context of project-based organizations in China, this study aims to identify the antecedents that facilitate three prevalent types of ambidexterity, namely, structural, ...

    • From Network Governance to Metagovernance 

      Müller, Ralf Josef (Chapter, 2023)
      Inter-organizational networks have become the de-facto organization structure for the delivery of large projects. This chapter describes a three-layered framework for the governance of these networks, from the investor, ...

    • Governance of Interorganizational Project Networks 

      Müller, Ralf Josef; Alonderienė, Raimonda; Chmieliauskas, Alfredas; Drouin, Nathalie; Minelgaite, Inga; Pilkienė, Margarita; Šimkonis, Saulius; Unterhitzenberger, Christine; Vaagaasar, Anne Live; Wang, Linzhuo; Zhu, Fangwei (Research report, 2022)

    • Governance, governmentality and project performance: The role of sovereignty 

      Müller, Ralf Josef (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Considerable confusion prevails in the mutual positioning and relationship of concepts like management, leadership, governance and governmentality in projects. This article first develops a framework to distinguish these ...

    • Influencing factors of horizontal leaders' role identity in projects: A sequential mixed method approach 

      Zhu, Fangwei; Wang, Linzhuo; Sun, Mouxuan; Sun, Xiuxia; Müller, Ralf Josef (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Horizontal leadership is temporary and often short-term compared with vertical leadership. Therefore, the role identity of horizontal leaders' is more difficult to be legitimated. In this study, we investigated how different ...

    • Investigating collaboration in project management research: using action research as a meta-methodology 

      Sankaran, Shankar; Müller, Ralf Josef; Drouin, Nathalie (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Purpose The purpose of this article is to investigate collaboration in project management research. Although the literature shows an increase in collaboration between scientists and social scientists for various reasons, ...

    • A Manifesto for project management research 

      Locatelli, Giorgio; Ika, Lavagnon; Drouin, Nathalie; Müller, Ralf Josef; Huemann, Martina; Söderlund, Jonas; Geraldi, Joana; Clegg, Stewart (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Project management research has evolved over the past five decades and is now a mature disciplinary field investigating phenomena of interest to academics, practitioners and policymakers. Studies of projects and project ...

    • A (meta)governance framework for multi-level governance of inter-organizational project networks 

      Müller, Ralf Josef; Aix-Séguin, Charlotte; Alonderien, Raimonda; Bourgault, Mario; Chmieliauskas, Alfredas; Drouin, Nathalie; Ke, Yongjian; Minelgaite, Inga; Pilkienė, Margarita; Šimkonis, Saulius; Unterhitzenberger, Christine; Vaagaasar, Anne Live; Wang, Linzhuo; Zhu, Fangwei (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Little is known about the governance of inter-organizational networks for projects. This study empirically develops a theoretical framework for this, using twenty-eight project networks as case studies, applying 124 ...

    • Modeling Organizational Project Management 

      Müller, Ralf Josef; Drouin, Nathalie; Sankaran, Shankar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      The contemporary discourse on organizational project management (OPM) complements project, program, and portfolio management with emerging elements, such as governance, projectification, the project management office (PMO), ...