Project Governance Untangled: Steering Ambitious Projects to Strategic Success

24/08/2025 24 min Temporada 2025 Episodio 13
Project Governance Untangled: Steering Ambitious Projects to Strategic Success

Listen "Project Governance Untangled: Steering Ambitious Projects to Strategic Success"

Episode Synopsis

This podcast discusses the evolving concept of project governance, highlighting its ambiguity and varied definitions across the literature. Both sources examine distinct research streams: one viewing project governance as external to a specific project and another as internal. They reveal that while project governance literature draws significantly from established project research, it also extensively incorporates transaction cost economics. The texts underscore the fragmented nature of project governance discourse, emphasising a lack of a universally accepted definition and a tendency to conflate it with project management. Ultimately, they advocate for bridging the gap between academic and professional literature to foster a more coherent understanding and advance the field of project governance.Source: Musawir, A., Abd-Karim, S., Mohd-Danuri, M. (2020) Project governance and its role in enabling organizational strategy implementation: A systematic literature review, International Journal of Project Management 38 (2020)1–16 & Ahola, T, Ruuska, I, Artto, K & Kujala, J 2014, 'What is project governance and what are its origins?', International Journal of Project Management, vol. 32, no. 8, pp. 1321-1332,

More episodes of the podcast Research for Real