Considerations of time in project portfolio management

Miia Martinsuo

Considerations of time in project portfolio management

Industrial Engineering and Management

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Abstract

Time has been considered as a key success criterion and a limited resource in projects. It also causes competition among the projects in a portfolio and tensions across time horizons in portfolio decision making. Research on project portfolios and their management has so far treated time only implicitly and secondarily, by the side of other topics. The purpose of this conceptual paper is to investigate the relevance, meaning, and future possibilities of time in project portfolio management research. The relevance and treatment of time is first covered generally in project studies, continuing with an overview of the objective and subjective coverage of time in project portfolio management research. Future research avenues are proposed on five domains that connect the objective and subjective considerations. The paper suggests that project portfolio management research should increasingly acknowledge the meaning and potential of time, both as a limited and competed resource, as a focal topic of research, and as an issue to be managed deliberately.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	EURAM 2023 Conference
Subtitle of host publication	Transforming Business for Good
Publisher	European Academy of Management, EURAM
Number of pages	19
ISBN (Electronic)	978-2-9602195-5-5
Publication status	Published - Jun 2023
Publication type	A4 Article in conference proceedings
Event	EURAM European Academy of Management Conference: Transforming business for good - Trinity Business School, Dublin, Ireland Duration: 14 Jun 2023 → 16 Jun 2023 https://conferences.euram.academy/2023conference/

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Name	EURAM Conference
Publisher	European Academy of Management
ISSN (Electronic)	2466-7498

Conference

Conference	EURAM European Academy of Management Conference
Abbreviated title	EURAM 2023
Country/Territory	Ireland
City	Dublin
Period	14/06/23 → 16/06/23
Internet address	https://conferences.euram.academy/2023conference/

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Project portfolio management
Time
Temporal
Future
History

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