The Frontiers of Project Management Research

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The Frontiers of Project Management Research
by Jeffrey K. Pinto, David I. Cleland and Dennis P. Slevin (eds)	ISBN:1880410745
Project Management Institute 2003 (520 pages)
This collection of 28 research papers provides an insightful overview of past and current research findings in Project Management, and takes an eye-opening excursion along frontiers fertile for future investigation.

Table of Contents
	The Frontiers of Project Management Research
	Preface
	Section I - A Look at Background Research in the Field
	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
	Section II - Effective Practices & Success Factors
	Chapter 8	-	Profiling the Competent Project Manager
	Chapter 9	-	Measuring Project Management's Value—New Directions for Quantifying PM/ROI^SM
	Chapter 10	-	Project Management Practices in French Organizations—A State of the Art
	Chapter 11	-	A Framework for Analyzing the Development and Delivery of Large Capital Projects
	Section III - Organizational and Team Relationships—Behavioral Practices
	Chapter 12	-	Competencies in the Project–Oriented Organization
	Chapter 13	-	The Role of Trust in Project Management
	Chapter 14	-	Developing Superior Project Teams—A Study of the Characteristics of High Performance in Project Teams
	Chapter 15	-	Businesses in the World of Projects
	Chapter 16	-	Criteria for Effective Leadership in Technology-Oriented Project Teams
	Chapter 17	-	Processes for Operational Control in the Project-Based Organization
	Chapter 18	-	Project Companies and the Multi-Project Paradigm—A New Management Approach
	Chapter 19	-	Selling Project Management to Senior Executives—What's the Hook?
	Section IV - Project Management Techniques
	Chapter 20	-	Managing Risks in Projects with Decision Technologies
	Chapter 21	-	Analysis of External and Internal Risks in Project Early Phase
	Chapter 22	-	Improved Owner-Contractor Work Relationships Based on Capital Project Competencies
	Chapter 23	-	Project Stakeholder Mapping—Analyzing the Interests of Project Stakeholders
	Chapter 24	-	Project Risk Management—The Required Transformations to Become Project Uncertainty Management
	Chapter 25	-	A Comparison of Drum-Buffer-Rope (DBR) and Critical Chain (CC) Buffering Techniques
	Chapter 26	-	Cross-Impact Analysis of Information Technologies and Project Management Knowledge Areas in the Building Design Process
	Chapter 27	-	Managing Technological Innovation Projects—The Quest for a Universal Language
	Chapter 28	-	Deriving the 2^ND and 3^RD Dimensions of the BCWS
	Editor and Author Contact Information
	List of Figures
	List of Tables

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