Title: Leadership in project management: a scoping review

Authors: Hassan Danaee Fard; Musa Hajiani; Kamyar Fatemifar; Mohammadreza Golchian Khabbaz

Addresses: Department of Management, Tarbiat Modares University, Nasr Bridge, Jalale Ale Ahmad Hwy, Tehran, Iran ' Department of Project Management and Construction, Tarbiat Modares University, Nasr Bridge, Jalale Ale Ahmad Hwy, Tehran, Iran ' Department of Project Management and Construction, Tarbiat Modares University, Nasr Bridge, Jalale Ale Ahmad Hwy, Tehran, Iran ' Department of Project Management and Construction, Tarbiat Modares University, Nasr Bridge, Jalale Ale Ahmad Hwy, Tehran, Iran

Abstract: This scoping review article is a systematic literature review focusing on 'leadership in project management' with the aim of enabling future researchers to achieve a better understanding of main foci and topics of state-of-the-art studies, areas requiring further research, and/or limitations and blank or less studied subjects. To do so, we employed the five-step scoping review method (Arksey and O'Malley, 2005) in scanning and analysing pertinent articles from electronic databases. As described in the Section 2, of 1,120 citations, 56 articles matched the inclusion criteria. For each article, the key variables including main foci, research methodology, limitations, suggestions, implications, validity, reliability, conclusions, etc., were extracted in order to answer the research questions, with quantitative analysis for each variable included in the results section and a brief qualitative analysis of the results in the discussion. Finally, future research suggestions and research gaps are carefully delineated as well as a summary of our key findings.

Keywords: leadership; management; project leadership; project management; scoping review; literature.

DOI: 10.1504/IJPOM.2020.105705

International Journal of Project Organisation and Management, 2020 Vol.12 No.1, pp.74 - 116

Received: 12 Jan 2019
Accepted: 27 Aug 2019
Published online: 09 Mar 2020 *

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