System Engineering and Productivity

System Engineering and Productivity

Governance in Project-Based Organizations: A Combined Scientometrics and Qualitative Analysis of Dimensions, Components, and Indicators

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1 Corresponding author: Ph.D. Student, Faculty of Engineering, Imam Hossein University, Tehran, Iran
2 Assistant Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Imam Hossein University, Tehran, Iran
3 Associate Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Imam Hossein University, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
The enduring principal–agent challenge in organizational governance is especially pronounced in project-based organizations, where project and program managers assume CEO-like roles within temporary structures to achieve organizational objectives. Organizational project management governance is intended to provide an appropriate response to this challenge by defining the managers' playing field and the rules governing it, and by exercising supervision, directing, and strategic control over the way projects are managed in order to achieve the sustainable interests of stakeholders. To effectively model organizational governance in project-based organizations, this research identified and clarified the dimensions, components, and indicators that realize the principles of accountability, responsibility, transparency, fairness, and sustainability, tailored to organizational needs and constraints. Through scientometric analysis and qualitative content analysis, the study systematically reviewed the works of leading researchers and the frameworks developed by relevant institutions. The theoretical sensitivity created in this research, the simultaneous attention to two distinct knowledge areas of governance and project management, the attention to the multi-level nature of project governance, and the view of the problem from the perspective of organizational governance, have led to the presentation of a framework that is able to well explain how to implement good governance mechanisms in a project-based organization, and to draw a picture of the extensive responsibilities of governing bodies at different layers of the organization and explain the scope of the impact of their performance and implementation of policies.

Highlights

  • Without considering the governance of organizational project management, fundamental improvement of productivity in PBO organizations will not be practical.
  • The separation and distinction between the two knowledge areas of management and governance and their functions, in identifying and introducing the dimensions, components and indicators of project-based organization governance, has been carefully considered in this research.

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Volume 5, Issue 3 - Serial Number 16
Serial No. 16, Autumn Quarterly
Autumn 2025
Pages 87-133

  • Receive Date 11 May 2025
  • Revise Date 26 June 2025
  • Accept Date 03 July 2025
  • First Publish Date 03 July 2025
  • Publish Date 22 November 2025