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 …

This paper puts forth the somewhat controversial position that what is needed to improve
project management in practice is not more research on what should be done or the …

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 …

Since the mid 1970s, project management associations around the world have made
serious attempts to conduct themselves as professional associations. Traditional professions …

In May 2013, Wiley-Blackwell published Reconstructing Project Management (Morris, 2013),
a book I had been working on, I suppose, for over 40 years, about the knowledge needed to …

This article illustrates one aspect of the concept of “fit” between an organization's
implementation of project management and its organizational context by exploring how the …

Concepts developed by the academic community… must be recovered from operational and
textbook definitions and reconnected to ways of seeing and thinking about the world. In the …

Purpose–The ultimate purpose of this paper is to report on a research thesis that contributes
to making public projects more relevant and sustainable. The objective of this paper is to …

The purpose of this paper is to identify the new insights that emerge if key concepts in
Heidegger's magnum opus Being and Time are applied to the phenomena of projects and …

This paper reports on an 18-month research project to update the APM Body of Knowledge
4th edition. It reviews the role of Bodies of Knowledge in the profession, and reports on the …