About my research

My research areas are project governance, project leadership and more recently socio-technical systems

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  1. Article
    Special Issue: Project Governance: Reflections on the Past and Suggestions for the Future
    Professor Organizational Project Management Shankar Sankaran
  2. Article
    Empowering Managers to Adopt Multimethodological Intervention Strategies to Address Complex Problematic Situations
    Professor Organizational Project Management Shankar Sankaran
  3. Article
    Designing the application of technology in an organization for people to use to work.
    Professor Organizational Project Management Shankar Sankaran
  4. Article
    Fostering Participatory Action Research in Higher Degree Research Settings Through a Transdisciplinary Peer-Mentoring Collaborative
    Professor Organizational Project Management Shankar Sankaran
  5. Article
    How Socially Sustainable Is the Institutional Care Environment in China: A Content Analysis of Media Reporting
    Professor Organizational Project Management Shankar Sankaran
  6. Article
    Sociotechnical considerations on developing human robot teaming solutions for construction: a case study
    Professor Organizational Project Management Shankar Sankaran
  7. Article
    How an organization can deliver outcomes that create value to stakeholders
    Professor Organizational Project Management Shankar Sankaran
  8. Article
    Climbing to the top: Personal life stories on becoming megaproject leaders
    Professor Organizational Project Management Shankar Sankaran
  9. Article
    Building person-centred homes: a case study of a cluster-designed home for adults with intellectual disability in Australia
    Professor Organizational Project Management Shankar Sankaran
  10. Article
    Enabling Collaborative Research in Project Management by Creating Gioia Data Structures as a Boundary Object
    Professor Organizational Project Management Shankar Sankaran
  11. Article
    Principles-Based Project Management: Where to Now?
    Professor Organizational Project Management Shankar Sankaran
  12. Article
    The application of mixed methods in project management research: recent trends in their use and reporting
    Professor Organizational Project Management Shankar Sankaran
  13. Article
    Embracing paradox and contingency: integration mechanisms for ambidextrous innovation portfolio management
    Professor Organizational Project Management Shankar Sankaran
  14. Article
    How do project-oriented organizations enhance innovation? An institutional theory perspective
    Professor Organizational Project Management Shankar Sankaran
  15. Article
    Governance Through Trust: Community Engagement in an Australian City Rebuilding Precinct
    Professor Organizational Project Management Shankar Sankaran
  16. Article
    Hiding in plain sight: Exploring the complex pathways between tactical concealment and relational wellbeing
    Professor Organizational Project Management Shankar Sankaran
  17. Article
    Delphi Method
    Professor Organizational Project Management Shankar Sankaran
  18. Article
    A Critical Scoping Review of Disability Employment Research in the Construction Industry: Driving Social Innovation through More Inclusive Pathways to Employment Opportunity
    Professor Organizational Project Management Shankar Sankaran
  19. Article
    MINIMUM VIABLE GOVERNANCE FOR DATA SCIENCE INITIATIVES A TRANSPORT FOR NSW CASE STUDY
    Professor Organizational Project Management Shankar Sankaran
  20. Article
    Energy justice in renewable energy projects: How learning about indigenous knowledge systems could inform systemic practice
    Professor Organizational Project Management Shankar Sankaran
  21. Article
    Energy justice issues in renewable energy megaprojects: implications for a socioeconomic evaluation of megaprojects
    Professor Ralf MüllerProfessor Organizational Project Management Shankar Sankaran
  22. Article
    Balancing leadership in projects: Role of the socio-cognitive space
    Professor Organizational Project Management Shankar Sankaran
  23. Article
    From Urban-Scape to Human-Scape: COVID-19 Trends That will Shape Future City Centres
    Professor Organizational Project Management Shankar Sankaran
  24. Article
    Guest editorial
    Professor Organizational Project Management Shankar Sankaran
  25. Article
    Investigating collaboration in project management research: using action research as a meta-methodology
    Professor Organizational Project Management Shankar Sankaran
  26. Article
    Call for transparency of COVID-19 models
    Professor Organizational Project Management Shankar Sankaran
  27. Article
    Tension between Leadership Archetypes: Systematic Review to Inform Construction Research and Practice
    Professor Organizational Project Management Shankar Sankaran
  28. Article
    Systems Thinking Using SSM and TRIZ for Stakeholder Engagement in Infrastructure Megaprojects
    Professor Organizational Project Management Shankar Sankaran
  29. Article
    Modeling Organizational Project Management
    Professor Ralf MüllerProfessor Nathalie DrouinProfessor Organizational Project Management Shankar Sankaran
  30. Article
    Balancing vertical and horizontal leadership in projects
    Professor Ralf MüllerProfessor Organizational Project Management Shankar Sankaran
  31. Article
    Marketing for the project: project marketing by the contractor
    Professor Organizational Project Management Shankar Sankaran
  32. Article
    Practices, projects and portfolios: Current research trends and new directions
    Professor Organizational Project Management Shankar Sankaran
  33. Article
    Megaprojects redefined – complexity vs cost and social imperatives
    Professor Organizational Project Management Shankar Sankaran
  34. Article
    Megaproject management and leadership: a narrative analysis of life stories – past and present
    Professor Organizational Project Management Shankar Sankaran
  35. Article
    Classics in megaproject management: A structured analysis of three major works
    Professor Organizational Project Management Shankar Sankaran
  36. Article
    A theory framework for balancing vertical and horizontal leadership in projects
    Professor Ralf MüllerProfessor Organizational Project Management Shankar Sankaran
  37. Article
    Applying institutional theories to managing megaprojects
    Professor Organizational Project Management Shankar Sankaran
  38. Article
    The past and Present of Megaprojects
    Professor Organizational Project Management Shankar Sankaran
  39. Article
    Developmental Progress in Conducting Action Research
    Professor Organizational Project Management Shankar Sankaran
  40. Article
    Critical success factors (CSFs) for integration of sustainability into construction project management practices in developing countries
    Dr Saeed BanihashemiProfessor Organizational Project Management Shankar Sankaran
  41. Article
    Balanced Leadership
    Dr Johann PackendorffProfessor Organizational Project Management Shankar Sankaran
  42. Article
    Project Teams and Their Role in Organizational Project Management
    Professor Organizational Project Management Shankar Sankaran
  43. Article
    The Nature of Organizational Project Management through the Lens of Integration
    Professor Organizational Project Management Shankar Sankaran
  44. Article
    Cambridge Handbook of Organizational Project Management
    Professor Ralf MüllerProfessor Organizational Project Management Shankar Sankaran
  45. Article
    Understanding Megaproject Success beyond the Project Close-Out Stage
    Professor Organizational Project Management Shankar Sankaran
  46. Article
    Guest editorial
    Professor Organizational Project Management Shankar Sankaran
  47. Article
    How Far Can BIM Reduce Information Asymmetry in the Australian Construction Context?
    Professor Organizational Project Management Shankar Sankaran
  48. Article
    Mixed Methods Use in Project Management Research
    Professor Organizational Project Management Shankar Sankaran
  49. Article
    Value Co-creation with Stakeholders Using Action Research as a Meta-methodology in a Funded Research Project
    Professor Organizational Project Management Shankar Sankaran
  50. Article
    Governing projects under complexity: theory and practice in project management
    Prof. Tyrone S PitsisProfessor Organizational Project Management Shankar Sankaran
  51. Article
    Lessons Learnt from Educating University Students through a Trans-Disciplinary Project for Sustainable Sanitation Using a Systems Approach and Problem-Based Learning
    Professor Organizational Project Management Shankar Sankaran
  52. Article
    Cellular Scent of Influenza Virus Infection.
    Professor Organizational Project Management Shankar Sankaran
  53. Article
    Deconstructing dynamic capabilities: the role of cognitive and organizational routines in the innovation process
    Thayaparan GajendranProfessor Organizational Project Management Shankar Sankaran
  54. Article
    Applying Actor–Network Theory as a sensemaking framework for complex organisational change programs
    Professor Organizational Project Management Shankar Sankaran
  55. Article
    Application of Scenario-based Approaches in Leadership Research: An Action Research Intervention as Three Sets of Interlinked Practices
    Professor Organizational Project Management Shankar Sankaran
  56. Article
    Mellow Yellow: Taking a Systems Thinking Approach to Designing Research on Transitioning to More Sustainable Sewage Management
    Professor Organizational Project Management Shankar Sankaran
  57. Article
    Leadership in faith-based aged and community care
    Professor Organizational Project Management Shankar Sankaran
  58. Article
    The Interrelationship of Governance, Trust, and Ethics in Temporary Organizations
    Professor Ralf MüllerProfessor Organizational Project Management Shankar Sankaran
  59. Article
    Special issue
    Professor Organizational Project Management Shankar Sankaran
  60. Article
    Systems thinking: taming complexity in project management
    Professor Organizational Project Management Shankar Sankaran
  61. Article
    Characterization of Volatile Organic Compounds in Human Leukocyte Antigen Heterologous Expression Systems: a Cell's “Chemical Odor Fingerprint”
    Professor Organizational Project Management Shankar Sankaran
  62. Article
    Project management maturity: a critical analysis of existing and emergent factors
    Professor Organizational Project Management Shankar Sankaran
  63. Article
    Construction Stakeholder Management
    Professor Organizational Project Management Shankar Sankaran
  64. Article
    Analysis of Volatile and Non-Volatile Biomarkers in Human Breath Using Differential Mobility Spectrometry (DMS)
    Professor Organizational Project Management Shankar Sankaran
  65. Article
    Two-dimensional wavelet analysis based classification of gas chromatogram differential mobility spectrometry signals
    Professor Organizational Project Management Shankar Sankaran
  66. Article
    Managing organizational change by using soft systems thinking in action research projects
    Professor Organizational Project Management Shankar Sankaran
  67. Article
    Design-of-experiment optimization of exhaled breath condensate analysis using a miniature differential mobility spectrometer (DMS)
    Professor Organizational Project Management Shankar Sankaran
  68. Article
    Singing different tunes from the same song sheet
    Professor Organizational Project Management Shankar Sankaran
  69. Article
    Indian culture and the culture for TQM: a comparison
    madhu ranjan kumarProfessor Organizational Project Management Shankar Sankaran
  70. Article
    Microfabricated differential mobility spectrometers for breath analysis
    Professor Organizational Project Management Shankar Sankaran
  71. Article
    Modular Sampling and Analysis Techniques for the Real-Time Analysis of Human Breath
    Professor Organizational Project Management Shankar Sankaran
  72. Article
    From East to West- Has the Twain Met? Linkages Between Context Sensitivity and Soft Systems Methodology
    madhu ranjan kumarProfessor Organizational Project Management Shankar Sankaran
  73. Article
    Reflections on developing an offshore, action research/learning-based Ph.D. program
    Professor Organizational Project Management Shankar Sankaran
  74. Article
    The Actions of Mahabharat (an Indian Epic): An Analysis from Action Science Perspective
    madhu ranjan kumarProfessor Organizational Project Management Shankar Sankaran
  75. Article
    Gene targeting in plants: fingers on the move
    Professor Organizational Project Management Shankar Sankaran
  76. Article
    Notes from the field
    Professor Organizational Project Management Shankar Sankaran
  77. Article
    Introducing action learning to develop engineering managers in a business enterprise in Singapore
    Professor Organizational Project Management Shankar Sankaran