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Business and Management
Norway
2026

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Business and Management

D-Index
55
Citations
18199
World Ranking
723
National Ranking
5

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Business and Management in Norway Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Business and Management in Norway Leader Award

Overview

Ralf Müller is affiliated with BI Norwegian Business School in Norway. Their research activity spans key areas within business, management, and decision sciences, focusing on project management and organizational topics.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Business, Management and Accounting
  • Decision Sciences

Within these broader domains, their subfields of interest are:

  • Management Science and Operations Research
  • Strategy and Management
  • Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
  • Management Information Systems
  • Building and Construction

The core topics addressed in their research publications reflect these study areas and include:

  • Construction Project Management and Performance
  • Public-Private Partnership Projects
  • Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
  • Innovation and Knowledge Management
  • Public Procurement and Policy
  • Outsourcing and Supply Chain Management
  • Complex Systems and Decision Making

Ralf Müller's publication record features numerous recent papers such as:

  • "A Manifesto for project management research," 2023, European Management Review
  • "Rethinking project governance: Incorporating contextual and practice-based views," 2022, International Journal of Project Management
  • "Governance, governmentality and project performance: the role of sovereignty," 2022, International Journal of Information Systems and Project Management
  • "Collective Mindfulness: The Key to Organizational Resilience in Megaprojects," 2021, Project Management Journal
  • "Artificial Intelligence and Project Management: Empirical Overview, State of the Art, and Guidelines for Future Research," 2024, Project Management Journal

The scientist frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Project Management Journal
  • International Journal of Managing Projects in Business
  • Veterinary Dermatology
  • International Journal of Project Management
  • Project Leadership and Society

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Nathalie Drouin
  • Shankar Sankaran
  • Linzhuo Wang
  • Gary Klein
  • Alfons van Marrewijk

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

  • Leadership competency profiles of successful project managers

    Ralf Müller;Rodney Turner

  • A Retrospective look at our Evolving Understanding of Project Success

    Kam Jugdev;Ralf Müller

  • 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

  • A continuum phase field model for fracture

    Charlotte Kuhn;Ralf Müller

  • Relationships between a project management methodology and project success in different project governance contexts

    Robert Joslin;Ralf Müller

  • Critical success factors in projects

    Ralf Müller;Kam Jugdev

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

    J. Rodney Turner;Ralf Müller

  • Project Portfolio Control and Portfolio Management Performance in Different Contexts

    Ralf Müller;Miia Martinsuo;Tomas Blomquist

  • 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 Governance and Project Success

    Robert Joslin;Ralf Müller

  • On degradation functions in phase field fracture models

    Charlotte Kuhn;Alexander Schlüter;Ralf Müller

  • Phase field approximation of dynamic brittle fracture

    Alexander Schlüter;Adrian Willenbücher;Charlotte Kuhn;Ralf Müller

  • 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

  • Identifying interesting project phenomena using philosophical and methodological triangulation

    Robert Joslin;Ralf Müller

  • Practices, Roles, and Responsibilities of Middle Managers in Program and Portfolio Management:

    Tomas Blomquist;Ralf Müller

  • Project Success Criteria and Project Success by Type of Project

    Ralf Müller;J. Rodney Turner

Frequent Co-Authors

Dietmar Gross
Dietmar Gross Technical University of Darmstadt
Angelika Humbert
Angelika Humbert Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
J. Rodney Turner
J. Rodney Turner University of Leeds
Hans Hasse
Hans Hasse Technical University of Kaiserslautern
Guozheng Kang
Guozheng Kang Southwest Jiaotong University
Veit Helm
Veit Helm Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Gary Klein
Gary Klein University of Colorado Colorado Springs
Daniel Steinhage
Daniel Steinhage Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Herbert M. Urbassek
Herbert M. Urbassek Technical University of Kaiserslautern
Karsten Albe
Karsten Albe Technical University of Darmstadt

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