De Gruyter Handbook of Responsible Project Management

The narrative about the project management profession is dominated by discussions of “success” and “failure” along with the need to improve the competence of project managers. As a result, the community is engaged in a fruitless search for a combination of tools, techniques and practices that will result in desired outcomes for funders. While the profession has made recent attempts to incorporate environmental and social responsibility, these areas are still framed within the existing discourses of project delivery. The De Gruyter Handbook of Responsible Project Management seeks to rethink project management by integrating contributions from the emerging responsible Management domain.

This handbook will explore the nature and extent of project professionals’ responsibility at different levels – individual, team, organizational and societal – along with the implications for education, research and practice. The De Gruyter Handbook of Responsible Project Management offers cutting-edge insights into the field of project management. It is an essential reference for scholars and practitioners.

Beverly Pasian’s career is one of a project management practitioner and researcher. For more than 30 years, she has managed, taught, and conducted research in the public sector around the world. She has dozens of courses, papers, and presentations to her credit along with master’s degrees (in education and business), a doctorate in project management (2011) and a doctorate in business administration (2023), as well as expert and leadership participation in the IEEE and IPMA are ongoing. One of the best decisions of her professional life was to pivot her focus from project management maturity to smart cities. Investigating the role of projects in maximizing quality of life in smart cities is the most responsible step she wants to take as a researcher with the ultimate goal of working directly with companies and cities to do the same.

Dr Nigel L. Williams, PMP is the Reader in Project Management in the Organizations and Systems Management Subject Group at the University of Portsmouth. Before he joined academia, he worked for 15 years as a manager and business consultant for companies in the Caribbean region. Nigel is one of the founders of the ‘Responsible Project Management’ website and is a co-author of the RPM manifesto. The site is at https://www.responsiblepm.com/