Project management research has evolved over the past five decades and is now a mature
disciplinary field investigating phenomena of interest to academics, practitioners and …

This paper provides avenues for a broader engagement with the conceptual considerations
of projects and project management with the aim of creating new possibilities for thinking …

Project management as a discipline possesses a rich body of literature characterized by
early determinism and later expansion to broader contexts aided by paradigmatic, thematic …

In 2003 the UK's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) agreed to
fund a research network–Rethinking Project Management–to define a research agenda …

Project organising is a growing field of scholarly inquiry and management practice. In recent
years, two important developments have influenced this field:(1) the study and practice of …

Research on projects is not only an immature field of research, but it is also insubstantial
when it comes to understanding what occurs in projects. This article contributes to making …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to reflect on some of the fundamental project
management (PM) research issues facing PM as a discipline. It aims to pose fundamental …

Project management is a rapidly expanding subfield of management and organization
studies. This paper seeks to make sense of this development and the current state of project …

A unified theory of the management of projects does not exist. Projects are context-specific
and located in open-systems. While this is now widely acknowledged, research …

Project management is one of the fastest growing disciplines in organizations today.
However, ironically, the statistics of project success suggests that most projects still fail and …