• A theory framework for balancing vertical and horizontal leadership in projects 

      Müller, Ralf; Sankaran, Shankar; Drouin, Nathalie; Vaagaasar, Anne Live; Bekker, Michiel C.; Jain, Karuna (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      This paper develops a framework for understanding the interaction between person-centered leadership by project managers (a.k.a. vertical leadership (VLS)) and team-centered leadership by individuals in the project team ...
    • Assignment of project team members to projects: Project managers’ influence strategies in practice 

      Sankaran, Shankar; Vaagaasar, Anne Live; Bekker, Michiel C. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate how project managers, influence the assignment of project team members by directly assigning or specifying who they want or by indirectly using lateral influence strategies ...
    • Balancing vertical and horizontal leadership in projects: Empirical studies from Australia, Canada, Norway and Sweden 

      Drouin, Nathalie; Müller, Ralf; Sankaran, Shankar; Vaagaasar, Anne Live (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Purpose The purpose of this paper is twofold: to identify how horizontal leaders (within project teams) execute their leadership task in the context of balanced leadership; and to pinpoint scenarios that can occur when ...
    • 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), ...
    • The Interrelationship of Governance,Trust, and Ethics in Temporary Organizations 

      Müller, Ralf; Andersen, Erling S.; Kvalnes, Øyvind; Shao, Jingting; Sankaran, Shankar; Turner, Rodney; Biesenthal, Christopher; Walker, Derek H.T.; Gudergan, Siegfried (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)
      This study investigates the variety of ethical decisions of project managers and their impact from corporate governance and project governance structures. The roles of personal trust and system trust as a mechanism to steer ...