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Title 25 years of 'sustainable projects'. What we know and what the literature says
ID_Doc 75572
Authors Sabini, L; Muzio, D; Alderman, N
Title 25 years of 'sustainable projects'. What we know and what the literature says
Year 2019
Published International Journal Of Project Management, 37, 6
DOI 10.1016/j.ijproman.2019.05.002
Abstract Last few years have seen a huge increase of publications at the intersection of project management and sustainability. Nevertheless, this field has become increasingly fragmented undermining a steady and consistent development. Aiming at balancing tensions between authors' attempts for more 'integration' and the trajectories toward fragmentation, we employed an extensive, systematic literature review of 770 publications from the period 1993 to 2017. Therefore, this review offers guidance to scholars less familiar with this concept who encounter SPM in their research. We suggest that the SPM literature can be understood by answering the following questions: (1) Why adopt sustainable business practices into projects? (2) What is the impact of sustainability on traditional project management practices? And (3) how is sustainability embedded in project practices? The three narrative themes illustrate the diverse views on the different aspects of SPM, allowing divergences, such as different philosophical underpinnings or levels of analysis, to flourish without eroding the clarity of the field. (C) 2019 Elsevier Ltd, APM and IPMA. All rights reserved.
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Document Type Other
Open Access Open Access
Source Social Science Citation Index (SSCI)
EID WOS:000475994300002
WoS Category Management
Research Area Business & Economics
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