• 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 ...
    • Honesty in projects 

      Kvalnes, Øyvind (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)
      Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore how the concept of honesty can shed light on misreporting issues in projects. Research on honesty can be useful for practitioners and researchers in project management, ...
    • Increasing project benefits by project opportunity exploitation 

      Eskerod, Pernille; Ang, Karyne; Andersen, Erling S. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Purpose: Exploitation of project opportunities may bring more benefits than stipulated in the initial business case, and even stakeholder benefits that nobody thought of at the project initiation. The purpose of this paper ...
    • Project managers adjust their leadership: to workspace and project type 

      Vaagaasar, Anne Live; Müller, Ralf Josef; De Paoli, Donatella (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      The purpose of this paper is to investigate the triadic relationship between project workspace (i.e. spatial context), project type and project manager’s leadership style. It develops the concept of leadership construct ...
    • Transformational leadership and project team members' silence: the mediating role of feeling trusted 

      Zhu, Fangwei; Wang, Linzhuo; Yu, Miao; Müller, Ralf Josef; Sun, Xiuxia (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Silencing behavior among project team members (PTM) poses a potential threat to project results. Hence, breaking silence in projects is critical to motivate team members and beneficial for project outcomes. The purpose of ...