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Appears in Collections: | Management, Work and Organisation Journal Articles |
Peer Review Status: | Refereed |
Title: | Thinking is for Doing: Project Cognition as the Foundation of Project Behaviour |
Author(s): | Stingl, Verena Gilchrist, Alicia Lawani, Ama Flin, Rhona Zwikael, Ofer |
Contact Email: | ama.lawani@stir.ac.uk |
Keywords: | Project behaviour Cognition Information processing Project management |
Issue Date: | Jan-2025 |
Date Deposited: | 2-Feb-2025 |
Citation: | Stingl V, Gilchrist A, Lawani A, Flin R & Zwikael O (2025) Thinking is for Doing: Project Cognition as the Foundation of Project Behaviour. <i>International Journal of Project Management</i>, 43 (1), p. 102678. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijproman.2025.102678 |
Abstract: | Cognition, understood as the way the mind acquires, processes, and enacts information, is at the root of all behaviour. Yet, while the interest in behaviour in projects is increasing, these cognitive foundations are often disregarded or only haphazardly investigated in project research. This essay calls for a stronger engagement with cognition in projects, leveraging the insights from general and applied cognition sciences to explore, explain, and predict project behaviour. We emphasise that it is not differences in the thinking itself, but differences in the context in which the thinking is applied, that makes projects a relevant and distinct area in which to study cognition. To sketch a way forward, we establish key terms, illustrate phenomena from project behaviour which might benefit from a study through a cognitive lens, and introduce appropriate theories from cognitive science. The insights generated from such research with attention to ‘project cognition’ are particularly valuable for practice as they help to design project environments that align with how people in projects make sense of their world and interact with it. |
DOI Link: | 10.1016/j.ijproman.2025.102678 |
Rights: | This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons CC-BY license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. You are not required to obtain permission to reuse this article. |
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