“…Origins of the practice-based project studies can be traced to the behavioural school of thought in early project management (Söderlund, 2011), but only relatively recently has this movement gained prominence in the mainstream project literature. These studies, for example, argue that a focus on what people actually do in projects rather than what they should do would help in resolving the relevance issue, a shortcoming that has often been attributed to the traditional positivist project management inquiry (Blomquist et al, 2010;Bresnen et al, 2005;Smyth and Morris, 2007). By drawing upon pragmatist philosophy, in particular John Dewey, researchers also began drafting some contours of pragmatist research into project practices as a form of applied science and explicating them through an epistemology of practice (Lalonde et al, 2010).…”