TY - JOUR
T1 - Innovation in Project Management
T2 - Voices of Researchers
AU - Geraldi, Joana
AU - Turner, J. Rodney
AU - Maylor, Harvey
AU - Söderholm, Anders
AU - Hobday, Mike
AU - Brady, Tim
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - This paper reports and reflects on the discussions about the nature of the discipline of project management that took place during the 8th conference of the International Research Network of Organizing by Projects (IRNOP VIII), held in Brighton in September 2007. The discussions started with the provocative motion “This house believes that we no longer need the discipline of project management”. The arguments are organised in the following areas: the use of the traditional body of knowledge by practitioners and by academics; the use of project management as a knowledge field by practitioners and by academics. The discussions indicate that project management research is in a fruitful moment of revolution of paradigms. We wish that the new paradigm accepts the plurality of research in projects and we need discussions supporting and also refusing the ‘motion’, and by this means, proposing answers, rather than the answer, to the future of ‘the project management discipline’.
AB - This paper reports and reflects on the discussions about the nature of the discipline of project management that took place during the 8th conference of the International Research Network of Organizing by Projects (IRNOP VIII), held in Brighton in September 2007. The discussions started with the provocative motion “This house believes that we no longer need the discipline of project management”. The arguments are organised in the following areas: the use of the traditional body of knowledge by practitioners and by academics; the use of project management as a knowledge field by practitioners and by academics. The discussions indicate that project management research is in a fruitful moment of revolution of paradigms. We wish that the new paradigm accepts the plurality of research in projects and we need discussions supporting and also refusing the ‘motion’, and by this means, proposing answers, rather than the answer, to the future of ‘the project management discipline’.
KW - Project management research
KW - Project management research
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ijproman.2008.05.011
DO - 10.1016/j.ijproman.2008.05.011
M3 - Journal article
VL - 26
SP - 586
EP - 589
JO - International Journal of Project Management
JF - International Journal of Project Management
SN - 0263-7863
IS - 5
ER -