APM's Research Summary Series provide practitioner-friendly summaries drawn from published articles from the International Journal of Project Management (IJPM). The research summary series play a key role in helping to disseminate cutting-edge research for practitioners. These summaries will benefit:
While there is much evidence that project-based work can be an effective and productive way of achieving economic outputs at firm level, there has remained a lack of knowledge about the effects on an overall economy of firms transitioning from non-project to project work (‘projectification’).
This empirical study focusses on the ways that stakeholders of public infrastructure projects pursue influence on projects through their expectations of project value.
APM conducted a research consultation to establish the main challenges and opportunities faced by key stakeholder groups. One of the three main priority areas focused on disseminating cutting-edge research for practitioners.
It was appreciated that a large body of research already existed but often the formats, length and language wasn’t that accessible to non-academics. APM has responded by re-purposing selected articles in order to help meet these practitioner needs.
Summaries might be selected for a number of reasons: they support APM’s research themes or priorities, they are currently one of the most cited or downloaded papers featured in the International Journal of Project Management (IJPM), or APM has received suggestions from members or from the wider project management community to produce a practitioner paper based on a current IJPM paper or subject.
We would very much like to hear from you around your thoughts on any summary paper(s) you may read – how did you find it? Was it useful? How did you use the paper? What papers or areas would you like to see in the future? Your feedback and insight is important to us as we would like to pass this onto the original author(s).
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Summaries are produced by experienced technical writers who have a proven track record of converting academic text for public audiences in conjunction with the original academic author(s) where possible.
Each summary paper includes the opportunity for the original authors to include a short paragraph around how the subject matter contained has moved on, or whether there is anything practitioners should be aware of since the original article was published, if relevant.