Citation:
Joana G Geraldi, J Rodney Turner, Harvey Maylor,
Anders Söderholm, Mike Hobday and Tim Brady,
Innovation in Project Management: Voices of Researchers, International Journal of Project Management, Volume 26, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 586–589
Abstract:
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".
