Chapter 1: Forty Years of Project Management Research Trends, Interpretations, and Predictions

Chapter 2: Research Trends in the 1990s The Need now to Focus on the Business Benefit of Project Management

Chapter 3: Project Management Research Experiences and Perspectives

Chapter 4: Proposition of a Systemic and Dynamic Model to Design Lifelong Learning Structure The Quest of the Missing Link Between Men, Team, and Organizational Learning

Chapter 5: What the United States Defense Systems Management College has Learned from Ten Years of Project Leadership Research

Chapter 6: United States Defense Acquisition Research Program A New Look

Chapter 7: Project Management for Intensive, Innovation-Based Strategies New Challenges for the 21st Century

Introduction

Section one contains a set of papers whose theme is an attempt to position the current state of project management research. Each of the papers addresses some aspect of the overall nature of research, including lessons learned, future directions, and missing pieces.

• Timothy Kloppenborg and Warren Opfer (primary authors) present the results of their comprehensive analysis and literature review of the past forty years of project management research. Their perspective points to a number of important trends and predictions for future streams of research. Chapter 1 Forty Years of Project Management Research: Trends, Interpretations, and Predictions.

• Peter Morris uses the current state of the project management body of knowledge developed in the United Kingdom as a framework for examining the research in project management over the decade of the 1990s. He suggests a number of areas in which the literature is underdeveloped and in need of additional...