“…The ten contributions cover different levels of analysis: project, program, project-oriented organization, and project alliance, indicating the broad application of value creation in project settings. They also cover different project phases: from the front end of a program (Liu et al, 2019) to the execution phase (Fuentes and Smyth, 2019;Pargar et al, 2019;Vuorinen and Martinsuo, 2019) and finally to the solution's end-of-life phase (Invernizzi et al, 2019), showing the relevance of value creation over the project lifecycle. With these contributions, the special issue succeeded in its aim to develop new knowledge about successful ways to negotiate and deliver value in complex and uncertain project-related contexts.…”