Dr. Pernille Eskerod is a leading management scholar with over 30 years of experience, known for her influential contributions to project management, particularly in stakeholder engagement.
Programs
Doctorate: Project Management
Academic and Professional Background
Dr. Pernille Eskerod’s academic background includes over 20 years at the University of Southern Denmark, where she served as assistant professor, associate professor, and full professor with special duties within project management. Her current position as full professor within the fields of management and organization behaviour at Webster Vienna Private University, Austria, she has undertaken for more than 10 years. In addition, she has been a faculty member at the WU Executive Academy, WU Vienna University of Economy and Business, Austria, since 2008.
Contributions to Project Management
Dr. Eskerod has contributed to the advancement of the project management field globally since her first international journal article, Meaning and Action in a Multi-Project Environment. Understanding a Multi-Project Environment by Means of Metaphors and Basic Assumptions, was published in 1996 in International Journal of Project Management. For more than three decades she has laid out conceptual questions and suggestions to challenge current understandings and implicit assumptions of the project management discipline, especially related to stakeholders and stakeholder engagement. As a result, she was invited to contribute to the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Business and Management. Her chapter, A Stakeholder Perspective: Origins and Core Concepts, was published in 2020. On top of numerous publications in international journals, conferences, and edited books since 1994, she has published research-based textbooks, incl. Project Stakeholder Engagement – Analysis, Involvement and Communication by Routledge, 2026 (with Anna Lund Jepsen).
Externally Funded Research Projects
As an active researcher, Dr. Eskerod has conducted internationally and nationally funded research projects. She was Denmark’s representative in the PMI sponsored global research project PMValue - Researching the Value of Project Management. She also undertook the PMI sponsored research projects, Rethink!PSM Rethinking Project Stakeholder Management (with Martina Huemann & Claudia Ringhofer) and Social Media to Engage Community Stakeholders in Infrastructure Projects (with Ken Chung, Anna Lund Jepsen & Jingbo Zhang). In addition, Dr. Eskerod has conducted EU-funded research as well as research funded by the Danish, Austrian, and Serbian governments and other external sources.
Educational Efforts
Dr. Eskerod has been central in developing and delivering courses at undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate levels for more than 30 years. She was the initiator and lead of the Master Program in Project Management that was established at University of Southern Denmark. Dr. Eskerod is a very dedicated instructor, and her international experience is benefitting students and practitioners across the world, in both in-person and online sessions.
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Pernille Eskerod (0000-0002-3291-2763) - ORCID
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