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dc.contributor.authorScales, J.
dc.contributor.authorSankaran, J.
dc.contributor.authorCameron, Roslyn
dc.contributor.editorEURAM
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T11:45:26Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T11:45:26Z
dc.date.created2015-10-07T04:04:46Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.citationScales, J. and Sankaran, J. and Cameron, R. 2015. Is the project management field suffering from methodological inertia?: Looking for evidence in publications in a recently established journal, in Proceedings of EURAM ’15: Uncertainty is a great opportunity, Jun 17-20 2015. Warsaw, Poland: Kominski University.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/14698
dc.description.abstract

Project management (PM) researchers have traditionally used quantitative methods in their research due to the origins of this practice-based discipline in defence and engineering. Although qualitative methods are starting to be used in PM research, most of the qualitative research reported tends to use case studies. Recently, there has been a call for PM researchers to use more novel methods to increase the variety of methods used by the researcher in the field contributing to its further development (Drouin, Muller and Sankaran 2013; Cameron, Sankaran and Scales 2015). A review of papers presented at the International Research Network on Organizing by Projects (IRNOP) conference in Berlin in 2009 showed a surprising trend that papers presented at these conferences used more qualitative methods in comparison with articles published in key PM journals. This paper analyses articles published over the past six years in a comparatively new PM journal, since its inception, to explore whether the new journal has motivated PM researchers to overcome their methodological inertia and broaden the variety of research methods they use. A mixed methods prevalence study was undertaken on articles published in the International Journal of Managing Projects in Business (IJMPiB) from 2008 to 2014 (n=265). The findings point to methodological inertia in the majority of research but also an unusually high proportion of the use of mixed methods. Future research is needed to add finer granularity to the analysis.

dc.publisherEURAM
dc.titleIs the project management field suffering from methodological inertia?: Looking for evidence in publications in a recently established journal
dc.typeConference Paper
dcterms.source.titleLooking for evidence in publications in a recently established journal
dcterms.source.seriesLooking for evidence in publications in a recently established journal
dcterms.source.conferenceEURAM Conference 2015
dcterms.source.conference-start-dateJun 17 2015
dcterms.source.conferencelocationWarsaw, Poland
dcterms.source.placePoland
curtin.departmentSchool of Management
curtin.accessStatusFulltext not available


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