Dear Colleagues,

Although the relationship between project management and sustainability is increasingly gaining attention from scholars, decision-makers, public and private organizations, it still appears to be surrounded by challenges which deserve new perspectives and in-depth investigation.

The temporary nature of projects and the task-oriented project management approach does not always seem to be compliant with the usually long-term perspective of sustainability. Despite their apparent distance, sustainable project management is an increasingly emerging research topic and practical issue. Actually, recent disruptive events, and the Covid-19 pandemic, had and are still having profound implications on several organizational fittings and processes, accelerating and highlighting the need for new sustainable worldwide paradigms. In this path, project management discipline, as a mixture of strategic and business management, technical and behavioural competences, if internalized by institutions and organizations with appropriate practice, can support the implementation of new strategies, making things happen according to the idea–project–outcome process, reducing the risk of failure.

This Special Issue aims to investigate the contribution of project management for sustainability practices to social systems, as well as the emerging managerial and organizational implications, in terms of sustainability, which are also unpredictable and nonlinear, which derive from the implementation of project management methodologies, techniques and tools. Moving from multidisciplinary fields of research, this Special Issue aims to attract papers that, by focusing on original theoretical and practical contributions related to the application of project management to sustainability issues, can promote a new way of knowing (epistemology) and learning, and a new observational perspective.

This Special Issue offers the opportunity to publish on a state-of-the-art topic, promoting wide diffusion, recognition and citations of the submitted papers. Besides this, many other benefits will be provided, such as support from the editors, feedback and tips to improve a manuscript, peer endorsement of the published works, and a community of contributors with outstanding networking opportunities.

Recommended topics include, but are not limited to:

• Theoretical advancements in sustainable project management;
• Implementations of project management for sustainability practices, either in the pubic or private sector;
• Soft skill issues and perspectives on project management for sustainability practices;
• People, technology, and governance of project management for sustainability practices;
• Methodologies, techniques and tools of project management for sustainability practices;
• Effects and benefits of project management for sustainability practices;
• Role of information systems and big data analytics for project management for sustainability practices;
• Project-based organizations, hybrid organizations, network organizations.

Prof. Primiano Di Nauta
Dr. Francesca Iandolo
Prof. Gianluigi Mangia
Guest Editors

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