Editorial

Abstract

[Excerpt] The mission of the IJISPM - International Journal of Information Systems and Project Management is the dissemination of new scientific knowledge on information systems management and project management, encouraging further progress in theory and practice. It is our great pleasure to bring you the first number of the ninth volume of IJISPM. In this issue, readers will find important contributions on the paradoxical tensions of project management, junior project management professionals’ skills, Project Management Information Systems, and violations and sanctions of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The first article, “A framework for paradoxical tensions of project management,” is authored by Juhani Iivari. According to the author, research into organizations has concluded that organizational effectiveness is paradoxical, i.e., effective organizations have attributes that are simultaneously contradictory, even mutually exclusive. Although projects are temporary organizations, the paradox lens has largely been omitted in their context. This paper is an attempt to rectify the situation. It introduces a framework of eleven paradoxical tensions concerning priority, structure, and execution of projects, wishing to encourage future research on paradoxical tensions of project management. [...]