From the editor

This special issue of Project Management Journal presents a collection of six of the best papers presented at the International Research Network on Organizing by Projects (IRNOP) Conference hosted by the University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM) in June 2011 in Montréal, Canada. In this editorial, Professor Brian Hobbs, organizer of the IRNOP 2011 Conference and Project Management Chair at UQAM, shares his observations about the current state of project research and identifies trends...