Evolution of project management research as evidenced by papers published in the International Journal of Project Management

摘要

Over the past 20 years there has been an improvement in the quality and rigour of project management research. In the 1970s research in project management was dominated by practitioners, who set the research agenda and style. Then in the 1980s, it was dominated by the professional associations, all of whom wanted to develop their bodies of knowledge as the basis of their certification programs.