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International Journal of Project Management 33 (2015) 719 – 720
Call for papers: International Journal of Project Management
Theme: “Managing projects & sustainability”
Martina Huemann, Gilbert Silvius
1. Aims and scope
One of the developments that changed today's business
environment is the increased concern about the sustainability,
or unsustainability, of our society. “The most important
leadership challenge facing business today is the integration
of sustainability into core business functions” (BSR/
GlobeScan, 2012). This integration of sustainability calls
upon organizations to re-think, re-design and re-develop their
business practices. Projects as temporary organizations play an
increasing role in business and society (Lundin and Söderholm,
1995). Projects are the core means for introducing change in
organizations and in society (Turner and Müller, 2003).
Since some years, the relevance of sustainable development
for project management and the explicit or implicit consider-
ation of sustainable development principles in managing
projects has been discussed in academia and practice (Gareis
et al., 2013; Maltzman and Shirley, 2010; Silvius et al., 2012).
Silvius and Schipper (2014) identify a growing number of
publications that relate sustainability to project management. In
a structured review of 164 books, articles, papers and book
chapters, they identify several ‘impact areas’ that provide
leverage points for the consideration of sustainability in
projects. Some of these impact areas, for example project
stakeholder management, are well developed (e.g. by Achman,
2013; Eskerod and Huemann, 2013; Bal et al., 2013), whereas
others, for example project risk management or project
portfolio management, are still to be explored.
Thus an academic conversation has emerged on the relation
between project management and sustainability (Silvius and
Schipper, 2014), which we would like to continue and enrich in
the special issue. There are several relations between managing
projects and sustainability, such as
• The specifics of managing sustainability projects: projects
and programs are used for introducing sustainable
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development into an organization, specific management
challenges exist in this change projects/programs.
• Integrating sustainability principles into managing project
and programs: projects and programs are managed in a way
that supports the creation of sustainable outcomes. This
implies redesigning and enriching project management
practices, specifically risk management and stakeholder
management.
• The concept of sustainable development is value based and
relates to the behaviors and competences of the project and
program management professionally, such as project man-
agers, project owners, program managers and program
owners, project teams and program teams.
• The consideration of sustainability in project portfolio
management.
The aim of the special theme is to explore how the changes
that relate to the concerns for sustainability are changing the
profession of project management. Given the challenges that
face society, sound academic knowledge is about integrating.
2. Potential topics
The following list of potential topics is provided to stimulate
ideas for manuscripts. Authors are not restricted to this list, but
submissions must provide relevant insights framed by these
research questions:
• The role of projects and programs in realizing sustainable
development
• The impact of sustainability on project management
methods, processes, practices and/or knowledge areas
• The impact of sustainability on program management
methods, processes, practices and/or knowledge areas.
• Models and/or indicators of sustainability integration in
projects or programs.
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• Sustainability integration of project, program and portfolio
levels
• The impact of sustainability on the competences, behaviour
and ethics of the project manager and other project and
program management professionals
• Project marketing and sustainability.
3. Submission process
Authors should first submit a 1000-word abstract to get
feedback about the suitability of the topic for the specific
theme. Please submit abstracts directly to Martina Huemann
(Martina.Huemann@wu.ac.at) and Gilbert Silvius (mail@
gilbertsilvius.nl).
Papers must be submitted online at http://ees.elsevier.com/
jpma carefully following the Guide for Authors. Submitted
papers will be subject to the usual IJPM double-blind review
process with multiple reviewers. For questions please contact
the guest editors.
4. Key dates
Abstract submission deadline: 1 October 2015
Paper submission deadline: 1 March 2016
Notifications to authors: 1 June 2016
Expected publication date: early 2017.
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Achman, R., 2013. Stakeholders' perspectives on sustainability in project
management. In: Silvius, A.J.G., Tharp, J. (Eds.), Sustainability Integration
for Effective Project Management. IGI Global Publishing.
Bal, M., Bryde, D., Fearon, D., Ochieng, E., 2013. Stakeholder engagement:
achieving sustainability in the construction sector. Sustainability 6,
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Eskerod, P., Huemann, M., 2013. Sustainable development and project
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(1), 36–50.
Gareis, R., Huemann, M., Martinuzzi, A., 2013. Project Management &
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Lundin, R.A., Söderholm, A., 1995. A theory of the temporary organization.
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