Blar i Scientific articles på forfatter "Sankaran, Shankar"
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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 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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
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 ...