Peter W.G. Morris is Professor and Head of the School of Construction and Project Management at University College London (UCL). He is the author of over 110 papers and several books on the management of projects. A previous Chairman of the Association for Project Management, he was awarded the Project Management Institute's 2005 Research Achievement Award, IPMA's 2009 Research Award, and APM's 2008 Sir Monty Finniston Life-Time Achievement Award.

Jeffrey K. Pinto holds the Andrew Morrow and Elizabeth Lee Black Chair in the Management of Technology at Penn State University. He is the author or editor of 23 books and over 120 scientific papers. Dr. Pinto is a two-time recipient of the Distinguished Contribution Award from the Project Management Institute (1997, 2001) for outstanding service to the project management profession. He received PMI's Research Achievement Award in 2009.

Jonas Söderlund is Professor at BI Norwegian School of Management and responsible for its executive education within the area of project management. He is a founding member of the KITE Research Group (Knowledge Integration and Innovation in Transnational Enterprise) based at Linköping University. He has researched and published widely on the management and organization of projects and project-based firms and the evolution of project competence.

• Introduction: Towards the Third Wave of Project Management


• Part I: History and Foundations


• 1: Peter W.G. Morris: A Brief History of Project Management


• 2: Jonas Söderlund: Theoretical Foundations of Project Management: Suggestions for a Pluralistic Understanding


• 3: Rodney Turner, Jeffrey Pinto and Christophe Bredillet: The Evolution of Project Management Research: the Evidence from the Journals


• 4: Damian Hodgson and Daniel Muzio: Prospects for Professionalism in Project Management


• Part II: Industry and Context


• 5: Karlos Artto, Andrew Davies, Jaakko Kujala, Andrea Prencipe: The Project Business: Analytical Framework and Research Opportunities


• 6: Mike Bresnen and Nick Marshall: Projects and Partnerships: Institutional Processes and Emergent Practices


• 7: Gernot Grabher and Oliver Ibert: Project Ecologies: A Contextual View on Temporary Organizations


• Part III: Strategy and Decision-Making


• 8: Jonas Söderlund and Fredrik Tell: The P-form Corporation: Contingencies, Characteristics, and Challenges


• 9: Christoph Loch and Stylianos Kavadias: Implementing Strategy through Projects


• 10: Sergio Pellegrinelli, David Partington and Joana G. Geraldi: Program Management: an Emerging Opportunity for Research and Scholarship


• 11: Tim Brady and Mike Hobday: Projects and Innovation: Innovation and Projects


• Part IV: Governance and Control


• 12: Ralf Müller: Project Governance


• 13: Bent Flyvbjerg: Over Budget, Over Time, Over and Over Again: Managing Major Projects


• 14: Graham M. Winch and Eunice Maytorena: Managing Risk and Uncertainty on Projects: a Cognitive Approach


• 15: Jennifer Whyte and Raymond Levitt: Information Management and the Management of Projects


• Part V: Contracting and Relationships


• 16: Bernard Cova and Robert Salle: Shaping Projects, Building Networks


• 17: Stewart Clegg, Kjersti Bjørkeng, Tyrone Pitsis: Innovating the Practice of Normative Control in Project Management Contractual Relations


• 18: Nuno Gil, Hedley Smyth And Jeffrey Pinto: Trust in Relational Contracting and as a Critical Organizational Attribute


• Part VI: Organizing And Learning


• 19: Lars Lindkvist: Knowledge Integration in Product Development Projects: a Contingency Framework


• 20: Martin Hoegl, Miriam Muethel, and Hans Georg Gemuenden: Leadership and Teamwork in Dispersed Projects


• 21: Markus Hällgren and Anders Söderholm: Projects-As-Practice: New Approach, New Insights