Jacobsson, Mattias and Soderholm, Anders

Project studies beyond the straitjacket: an escape artist’s manual - Project Management Journal - 51(4), Aug, 2020: p.411-419

This article provides insights into ways in which project studies can be extended to make further impact on and contributions to other research domains, including more general management and organization studies. Inspired by literature on the phenomenology of science, publication practices, logics of research communities, and theory building, we analyze some examples of project studies that reach beyond the project domain. Based on this analysis, we present an “escape artist’s manual” consisting of strategies and practices for how researchers could think about and design project studies to enable contributions beyond the home domain. –Reproduced


Project studies, Phenomenology of science, Project management, Theory development, Academic escapology