Project leadership revisited: towards distributed leadership perspectives in prasdf@123oject research

International Journal of Project Organisation and Management

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 285-308

  Lindgren, Monica ^a   Packendorff, Johann ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

critical project studies; distributed leadership; leadership practices; project leadership; research methodology; research perspectives; shared leadership; social constructionism

Indexed keywords

EID: 76549098368     PISSN: 17402891     EISSN: 17402905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJPOM.2009.027540     Document Type: Article

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120. The article search was made in November 2008. Using ’leadership’ as a keyword in a search at the International Journal of Project Management homepage in ScienceDirect, we obtained a total of 48 articles during the journal’s lifetime. Of these, 25 explicitly dealt with aspects of leadership that could be related to leadership theory. Approximately 18 articles were published after 1999, indicating a growing interest in project leadership research. Given that the journal has published about 1300 articles since its start, it seems to us that the leadership aspect is underresearched. A similar conclusion can be made where the Project Management Journal is concerned; our search yielded a total of 22 articles from 1998 onwards, of which 13 were research articles explicitly built on general leadership theories.