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D-Index
61
Citations
20401
World Ranking
498
National Ranking
72

Overview

J. Rodney Turner is affiliated with the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. Their academic work spans multiple fields primarily within business and management as well as decision sciences. The subfields in which Turner focuses include management science and operations research, strategy and management, organizational behavior and human resource management, marketing, and communication.

The research topics addressed by Turner cover a variety of areas, with notable emphasis on construction project management and performance, innovation and knowledge management, customer service quality and loyalty, consumer retail behavior studies, knowledge management and sharing, management and organizational studies, and team dynamics and performance.

Turner has contributed to the academic literature with several papers, including:

  • How Does Governance Influence Decision Making on Projects and in Project-Based Organizations? (2020, Project Management Journal)
  • Investigating how governmentality and governance influence decision making on projects (2020, Project Leadership and Society)
  • Using Principal-Steward Contracting and Scenario Planning to Manage Megaprojects (2021, Project Management Journal)
  • Forty years of organizational behaviour research in project management (2021, International Journal of Project Management)

Additionally, Turner has contributed to collaborative projects, including work on stakeholder engagement published in 2024 in the International Journal of Project Management by Kirsi Aaltonen as lead author, indicating involvement in ongoing research areas.

The main venues in which Turner frequently publishes include:

  • International Journal of Project Management
  • Project Leadership and Society
  • Project Management Journal
  • Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services
  • International Journal of Managing Projects in Business

Turner frequently collaborates with several researchers, notably:

  • Roya Derakhshan
  • Kirsi Aaltonen
  • Francesco Di Maddaloni
  • Laurence Lecoeuvre
  • Paolo Di Muro

This profile reflects a scholar whose work is positioned at the intersection of project management, organizational behavior, and decision-making processes, contributing to a broad understanding of governance, stakeholder engagement, and performance management within project-based organizations.

Best Publications

  • On the Nature of the Project as a Temporary Organization

    J. Rodney Turner;Ralf Müller

  • The Project Manager's Leadership Style as a Success Factor on Projects: A Literature Review:

    J. Rodney Turner;Ralf Müller

  • Handbook of Project-Based Management : Improving the Process for Achieving Strategic Objectives

    J. Rodney Turner

  • Leadership competency profiles of successful project managers

    Ralf Müller;Rodney Turner

  • Matching the project manager’s leadership style to project type

    Ralf Müller;J. Rodney Turner

  • The Influence of Project Managers on Project Success Criteria and Project Success by Type of Project

    Ralf Müller;Rodney Turner

  • THE HANDBOOK OF PROJECT-BASED MANAGEMENT

    J. Rodney Turner

  • Goals-and-methods matrix: coping with projects with ill defined goals and/or methods of achieving them

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  • Human resource management in the project-oriented company: A review

    Martina Huemann;Anne Keegan;J. Rodney Turner

  • Forecasting Success on Large Projects: Developing Reliable Scales to Predict Multiple Perspectives by Multiple Stakeholders Over Multiple Time Frames

    Rodney Turner;Roxanne Zolin

  • The management of innovation in project-based firms

    Anne Keegan;J.Rodney Turner

  • Quantity versus Quality in Project-Based Learning Practices:

    Anne Keegan;J. Rodney Turner

  • Mechanisms of governance in the project-based organization: roles of the broker and steward

    J.Rodney Turner;Anne Keegan

  • Communication and co-operation on projects between the project owner as principal and the project manager as agent

    J. Rodney Turner;Ralf Müller

  • Project contract management and a theory of organization

    J Rodney Turner;Stephen J Simister

  • The impact of principal–agent relationship and contract type on communication between project owner and manager

    Ralf Müller;J. Rodney Turner

  • The Relationship Between Project Success and Project Efficiency

    Pedro Serrador;Rodney Turner

  • Human resource management in the project-oriented organization: Employee well-being and ethical treatment

    Rodney Turner;Martina Huemann;Anne Keegan

  • Relationships Between Leadership and Success in Different Types of Project Complexities

    R. Muller;J. Geraldi;J. R. Turner

  • Maximizing strategic value from megaprojects: The influence of information-feed on decision-making by the project manager

    John Eweje;Rodney Turner;Ralf Müller

  • Choosing Appropriate Project Managers: Matching their Leadership Style to the Type of Project

    J. Rodney Turner;Ralf Müller

  • The Handbook of Project-based Management: Leading Strategic Change in Organizations

    J. Rodney Turner

  • The versatile project-based organization: governance and operational control

    J.Rodney Turner;Anne Keegan

  • Aligning capability with strategy: Categorizing projects to do the right projects and to do them right

    Lynn Crawford;Brian Hobbs;J. Rodney Turner

  • Project Success Criteria and Project Success by Type of Project

    Ralf Müller;J. Rodney Turner

Frequent Co-Authors

Ralf Müller
Ralf Müller BI Norwegian Business School
Bent Flyvbjerg
Bent Flyvbjerg University of Oxford
Harvey Maylor
Harvey Maylor University of Oxford
Michael Hobday
Michael Hobday University of Brighton
Jeffrey K. Pinto
Jeffrey K. Pinto Penn State Behrend

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