The Team

Monique AUBRY

Adjunct Professor, Department of Management, ESG UQAM, Montreal, Canada
Email: aubry.monique@uqam.ca
Fields of expertise:
– Governance in project management
– Design and organizational strategy
– Project, program and portfolio management
– Management of major projects
– Projects in extreme situations

Serghei FLORICEL

Full Professor, Department of Management, ESG UQAM, Montreal, Canada
Email: floricel.serghei@uqam.ca
Fields of expertise:
– Project development, strategy and feasibility
– Project organisations and contractual networks: their capacity to answer to unexpected events
– Innovation projects and portfolio management
– Institutional structures: nature and impacts on projects
– Project complexity and risk: managing strategies
– Knowledge production and representation for projects

“[O]ur vision of project management should shift from that of maintaining a straight line—like a liner would do on an ocean by correcting deviations from the preset trajectory—toward one of a collective struggle of maintaining convergence and advancement, while dealing with representational inconsistencies and aberrations, as well as with the constant shifts and conflicts in the manifold manifestations of ‘will’.”

Skander BEN ABDALLAH

Associate Professor, Department of Management, ESG UQAM, Montreal, Canada
Email: ben abdallah.skander@uqam.ca 
Fields of expertise:
– Project evaluation and project portfolio optimization
– Decision making in incertitude contexts (The real option model and  fuzzy numbers)
– Project finance and public-private partnership
– Project risk management

“It is always interesting to discover how projects were born and shaped over time much before their real execution.  I am specifically interested in exploring the impact of  the economic and financial environnement on the development processes of projects”

Maude BRUNET

Associate Professor, Department of Management, HEC Montreal, Canada
Email: maude.brunet@hec.ca
Fields of expertise:
– Project management
– Project governance
– Public and infrastructure projects
– Major projects and megaprojects
– Qualitative research

Pierre-André HUDON

Associate Professor, Department of Management, Faculty of business administration, Laval University, Quebec, Canada
Email: pierre-andre.hudon@fsa.ulaval.ca
Fields of expertise:
– Project governance and management
– Public-private partnerships (PPP)
– Public procurement
– Corruption and collusion prevention
– Critical management studies

Guangshe JIA

Professor, Department of Project Management, Tongji University, China
Email: jiagsh803@tongji.edu.cn
Fields of expertise:
– Construction project management
– Public participation in megaprojects
– Project controlling in large-scale construction project
– Project management maturity
Interdisciplinary Studies:
– Sociology of Construction

“My main research interest bears on construction project management and construction engineering sociology

Ralf MÜLLER, DBA, MBA, PMP

Professor of Project Management, BI Norwegian Business School, Oslo, Norway
Email: ralf.mueller@pm-concepts.com
Fields of expertise:
– Governance of projects
– Organizational project management
– Leadership
– Research methods

“I have a special interest in the governance of complexity in megaprojects”

Dr Sorin PIPERCA

Senior Lecturer, Department of Management, Birkbeck, University of London, England
Email: s.piperca@bbk.ac.uk
Fields of expertise:
– Planning and management of major projects
– Structuring processes in temporary organizations
– Unexpected events
– Interorganizational collaborations
– Qualitative research

Andrea PRENCIPE

Rector, Full Professor of Organisation and Innovation, LUISS Guido Carli University, Rome, Italy
Emailaprencipe@luiss.it; rettore@luiss.it
Fields of expertise:
– Organization theory and innovation
– Project based organizations
– Strategic management
– Strategic planning
– Governance of innovation
– Organizational routines
– Leadership

Richard TEE

Assistant Professor, Management Department, LUISS University, Rome, Italy
Email: rtee@luiss.it
Fields of expertise:
– Complex projects and modular designs
– Collaboration and competition using digital platforms
– Coordination and cooperation in business ecosystems

“ My work focuses on collaboration in project-based settings. I am interested in how interdependencies that emerge in complex projects are managed, the coordination and cooperation challenges these raise, and their subsequent strategic outcomes.”

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Sanaa EL BOUKRI, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Management, ESG UQAM, Montreal, Canada
Email: el_boukri.sanaa@courrier.uqam.ca
Fields of expertise: 
– Project stakeholder management
– Benefits management
– Qualitative research methods
– Social complexity in context of major projects

Marie-Claude PETIT, Ph.D.

Faculty Lecturer, Department of Management, ESG UQAM, Montreal, Canada
Email: petit.marie-claude@uqam.ca 
Fields of expertise:
– Major project governance and management
– Multiprojects and Multiple project teams membership
– Project stakeholder management
– Project manager competencies
– Project team communication and collaboration
– Qualitative research
Interdisciplinary Studies:
– Teaching and learning project management
– Educational uses of digital technology
– Philanthropic management