Enabling Collaborative Research in Project Management by Creating Gioia Data Structures as a Boundary Object.

This process article reports on the use of Gioia data structures as a visual boundary object in project management research. Gioia data structures work as effective boundary objects that span a research team’s geographical distance in a virtual setting as an artifact for promoting visual collaboration in project management research. We demonstrate the use of boundary objects as generative tools for cross-disciplinary teams to share a common design method. While boundary objects have been used in project management studies, we extend their use to support collaborative research in project management. Keywords boundary objects, Gioia methodology, visualization, collaborative research, project portfolio management, construction project management [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]