Editorial: Special Issue on Fundamentals of Social and Management Science for Engineering Project Organizations

Abstract

The editors of the Engineering Project Organization Journal decided in August 2011 to launch Volume 2 of the EPOJ Journal with a special issue providing theoretical reviews of some of the key social and management science fundamentals underlying current research in engineering project organizations. Each of the papers in this collection is intended to provide a review of past research in a specific subfield of social or management science, draw out the implications of the broader social and management science literature in this subfield for engineering project organizations, and pose a set of research questions that could benefit from future research by EPOJ readers. This special issue contains eight papers that deal with the broad themes of project governance, project organization and project finance from several different points of view. As the guest editor of this special issue, it has been my privilege to assemble the papers included in this collection. Each of the authors of these invited papers is an active and well-respected researcher in the area of social or management science who prepared these articles on an extraordinarily tight schedule. On behalf of all EPOJ readers, I would like to express my deep appreciation to each of these authors for responding to my totally unreasonable request in late August of 2011 for draft papers by the end of early October 2011. I would also like to thank the anonymous EPOJ reviewers who worked on an equally tight schedule to review these draft manuscripts and help the authors revise their papers by late November 2011 for an early 2012 publication.