jgeioa

Department of Organization

  • Centre for Organization and Time (COT)
Joana
Geraldi
Associate professor


Room: KIL/14.A-3.84
Tel:
+4538153931
E-mail: jge.ioa@cbs.dk
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Presentation

The number and relevance of projects is growing at a staggering pace. This phenomena transformed organizations and is today changing the nature of social and economic action in society. Accompanying this development is the need to organize for projects, and to theorize about it. I study the people in projects and explore people-centric organizational practices and contexts for projects.
 
I am a ’Project Studies’ scholar, that is, I am part of the research community that studies projects, programs and portfolios. My empirical contexts are in projects and project organizing across different industrial contexts, in particular, large engineering projects, IT and construction industries. My research earned international awards and led to over 50 publications, most of which in the key project journals and conferences.
 
In the recent years, I came to recognise the relevance of decisions to projects, and have since studied how decisions happen in projects, and how objects, and in particular, visualizations, can inform (and misinform) them.

Primary research areas
  • Project organizing
  • Project society
  • Decisions and sensemaking in projects
  • Visualization
  • Project studies and scholarship
  • Projects tackling grand challenges and SDGs
  • Temporality and temporary organizations
Curriculum Vitae
Social media
Links
Link to this homepage
www.cbs.dk/en/staff/jgeioa
Courses
  • Decisions, uncertainty and ambiguity
  • Project management
Supervision

PhD Supervision:

  • 2015 – 2019: Verena Stingl (primary supervisor) on simple heuristics and decision making under uncertainty in project-based organizing).
 
Master and Bachelor Theses: I supervised over 50 bachelor and master theses. Here are a few examples:
  • Mads Berlin and Casper Hansen. A Virtual Case Study of the Accomplishment of Collective Sensemaking in Virtual Teams
  • Cathrine Skovly and Kristin Hals: The Rise and Fall of an Agile Transformation: A case study of the agile transformation in Nordea Bank AB.
  • Casper Hanse and Jeppe Tranekær Nielsen: Ambidexterity in Inter-Organizational Exploratory Projects.
  • Marisa Ferreira Silva: Managing projects for legacy: The role of institutional barriers in Rio Olympics 2016.
  • Andrzej Rogala: Visual Design Communication for Project Execution: The Case of 1:1 Scale Mock-Ups for a Pharmaceutical Production Facility (in collaboration with NNE, supervised with Anja Maier)
Selected publications
  • Geraldi, J. (2021). Self-Plagiarism in Project Studies: A Call for Action and Reflection. Project Management Journal 52(2), 119-126.
  • Geraldi, J., Stjerne, I. and Oehmen, J. (2020), "Acting in Time: Temporal Work Enacting Tensions at the Interface between Temporary and Permanent Organisations", Braun, T. and Lampel, J. (Ed.) Tensions and paradoxes in temporary organizing (Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Vol. 67), Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, 81-103.
  • Stingl, V. & Geraldi, J. (2017) Errors, lies and misunderstandings: Framing the literature on decision behaviour in projects. International Journal of Project Management, 35 (2), 121-135.
  • Geraldi, J. & Söderlund, J. (2018) Project Studies: What it is, where it is going. International Journal of Project Management 36 (1), 55-70.
  • Jensen, A. F., Thuesen, C. & Geraldi, J. (2016) The projectification of everything: Projects as a human condition. Project Management Journal, 47(3), 21-34.
  • Jane Bjørn Vedel; Joana Geraldi / How Managers Respond to Paradoxical Control-Trust Dynamics in Interorganizational Relationships over Time : A Constitutive Approach.
    In: Journal of Management Studies, 17.6.2022
  • Joana Geraldi; Satu Teerikangas; Gustavo Birollo / Project, Program and Portfolio Management as Modes of Organizing : Theorising at the Intersection between Mergers and Acquisitions and Project Studies.
    In: International Journal of Project Management, Vol. 40, No. 4, 5.2022, p. 439-453
    Publications sorted by:
    2024
    Joana Geraldi; Giorgio Locatelli; Giacomo Dei; Jonas Söderlund; Stewart Clegg / AI for Management and Organization Research : Examples and Reflections From Project Studies.
    In: Project Management Journal, Vol. 55, No. 4, 8.2024, p. 339-351
    Journal article > peer review
    Satu Teerikangas; Joana Geraldi; Christian Thuesen; Katariina Koistinen / Climate Action as an Extreme Case of Project Portfolio Management : Navigating Global Ambitions Amid Ambiguous Sustainability Transitions.
    In: Research Handbook on Sustainable Project Management. ed. /Gilbert Silvius; Martina Huemann. Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing 2024, p. 433-454 (Research Handbooks in Business and Management)
    Book chapter > peer review
    Joana Geraldi; Satu Teerikangas / Reimagining MA Integration : A Project-based View on MAs.
    In: A Research Agenda for Mergers and Acquisitions. ed. /David R. King; Olimpia Meglio. Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing 2024, p. 143–158 (Elgar Research Agendas)
    Book chapter > peer review
    Iben Sandal Stjerne; Joana Geraldi; Matthias Wenzel / Strategic Practice Drift : How Open Strategy Infiltrates the Strategy Process.
    In: Journal of Management Studies, Vol. 61, No. 3, 5.2024, p. 820-856
    Journal article > peer review
    Jonathan Feddersen; Henrik Koll; Joana Geraldi / The Temporality of Project Success : Vindeby, the World’s First Offshore Wind Farm.
    In: Project Management Journal, Vol. 55, No. 2, 4.2024, p. 167-186
    Journal article > peer review
    2023
    Giorgio Locatelli; Lavagnon Ika ; Nathalie Drouin ; Ralf Müller; Martina Huemann; Jonas Söderlund; Joana Geraldi; Stewart Clegg / A Manifesto for Project Management Research
    In: European Management Review, Vol. 20, No. 1, 3.2023, p. 3-17
    Journal article > peer review
    Matthias Wenzel; Iben Sandal Stjerne; Joana Geraldi / Agile: Mehr als nur eine Methode? : Implikationen der Einführung von Agile für die Strategieentwicklung.
    In: Austrian Management Review, Vol. 13, 2023, p. 29-37
    Journal article > peer review
    Joana Geraldi; Jonas Söderlund / Bridging Project Studies and Innovation Studies : A Meta-theoretical Approach and Research Agenda.
    In: Handbook on Innovation and Project Management. ed. /Andrew Davies; Sylvain Lenfle; Christoph H. Loch; Christophe Midler. Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing 2023, p. 36-59
    Book chapter > peer review
    Jane Bjørn Vedel; Joana Geraldi / How Managers Respond to Paradoxical Control-Trust Dynamics in Interorganizational Relationships over Time : A Constitutive Approach.
    In: Journal of Management Studies, Vol. 60, No. 8, 12.2023, p. 2060-2090
    Journal article > peer review
    Verena Stingl; Joana Geraldi / Imagining Futures : Cognitive Processes of Desirable or Undesirable Project Prospections.
    In: Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Vol. 194, 9.2023
    Journal article > peer review
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    Outside activities

    2025
    École Politechnique Executive Education
    Executive teaching on project complexity
    (2 x 3 hours)

    2024
    École Politechnique Executive Education
    Executive teaching on project complexity
    (3 hours)

    CBS Business
    Executive teaching PM for PhD
    (1 day)

    PMI
    PMJ Editorial
    (1 hour a week)

    2023
    CBS Executive
    Course and related examination
    1 day, twice a year

    2022

    CBS Business Two times delivery of a one-day course and related online material for the Industrial PhD course on project management (twice per year)


    2021

     
    January ITU Advice on Corrections of PhD thesis
    January Jagielllonian University Talk about decision making for PhD students
    Spring University of Sussex/
    Project X
    Four-day course on Project Studies for PhD students, post-docs and early career scholars
    March UCL Teaching of a half-day course on project society to executive master students
    Spring / Fall CBS Business  Three times delivery of a one-day course and related online material for the Industrial PhD course on project management (twice in 2019)
    Spring Universität Kassel Member of Berufungskommission for a new professor in project management (unpaid)
    October Telfer School of Management
    University of Ottawa
    External evaluator for a tenured professorship in project management (unpaid)
     
    2020
     
    Alma Mater Europaea ECM
    Member of committee for evaluation of intermediary PhD presentations, and speech to PhD students
     
    CBS Business
    Delivery of a one-day course and related online material for the Industrial PhD course on project management
     
    2019
     
    CBS Business
    Delivery of a one-day course and related online material for the Industrial PhD course on project management
     
    DTU
    Delivery of a one-day course and related online material for the Industrial PhD course on project management (twice in 2019)
     
    2018
    CBS Business
    Delivery of a one-day course and related online material for the Industrial PhD course on project management