What is it about?
This research paper explores the integration of Traditional Project Management (TPM) and Agile Project Management (APM) into a Hybrid Project Management (HPM) framework and its impact on project performance, with a focus on the mediating role of Team Work Quality (TWQ). The two scales, TPM and APM, are merged to create a hybrid scale, a novel concept. The model is grounded in contingency theory, and it offers a valuable addition to Contingency theory by highlighting the internal contingent factor without relying on moderators. The study also highlights the potential benefits of a hybrid approach, combining the structured predictability of TPM with the flexibility of APM, facilitated by strong teamwork, to optimize project outcomes.
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Why is it important?
First, because no validated scale for hybrid project management existed, previous researchers were constrained to indirect or secondary measures. To fill this gap, we developed a dedicated hybrid project-management scale by systematically integrating validated items from established traditional and agile project-management instruments. This new measure operationalizes the hybrid construct clearly and parsimoniously, making it straightforward for future researchers to include hybrid project management in empirical studies and conceptual models.
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What it is about: The paper develops the first dedicated scale for hybrid project management (by integrating validated traditional and agile items) and uses that measure in an empirical model that applies contingency theory showing that teamwork quality acts as an internal contingency and a mediator linking hybrid practices to outcomes. Why it’s important: It fills a crucial measurement gap so researchers can reliably study “hybrid” approaches, clarifies the mechanism (teamwork quality) through which hybrid practices affect results, and signals that practitioners should focus on team processes when adopting hybrid methods; it also points future research toward testing external boundary conditions to complete the contingency picture.
Umair Khan
National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences
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This page is a summary of: Hybrid project management and its effects on project performance, International Journal of Organization Theory and Behavior, September 2025, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/ijotb-09-2024-0166.
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