Why clear managerial recommendations matter in major projects research: Searching for relevance in practice
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• This essay celebrates Peter Morris’ legacy on major projects and how his work inspired generations of researchers. • The overwhelming perception of industrial partners is that they cannot use the research findings to address their own challenges in major projects. • Major projects research needs to shift towards an impact driven agenda, actively proposing the solutions to improve the performance of major and megaprojects. • Academics need to articulate the managerial recommendations in a direct and unambiguous manner, what needs to be done to implement the findings, how, when, and by whom. • Project Management journals could create a mandatory Managerial Summary section, to be available together with the Abstract in open access.
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- Authors
- Denicol, J.
- Affiliations
- University College London (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Denicol, Juliano
- ORCID
- Denicol, Juliano
- Venue
- International Journal of Project Management
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2022-02
- Volume
- 40
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 98-100
- ISSN
- 0263-7863 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W4205170508
- Cited by
- 7
- References
- 26
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 1 · 2022: 2
- FWCI
- 0.77
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- International Journal of Project Management (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Economic and Social Research Council (ES/S009841/1)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Management Science and Operations Research › Construction Project Management and Performance
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Publishing and Scholarly Communication
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Information Systems and Management › Business and Management Studies
- Keywords
- major projects, megaprojects, research impact, management recommendations, industrial partners, research-practice gap, open access publishing
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