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Expanding the Knowledge on Project Management Standards: A Look into the PMBOK® with Dynamic Lenses

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Project Management and Engineering Research

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Despite the large number of available project management standards and the efforts for improving its content and application, projects still fail. Researchers have identified that project management standards are generic and abstract and there is still the need to expand our knowledge in how to use them properly. The aim of this work is to develop an analytical principle-based approach for project management by highlighting which of the processes contained in the PMBOK® are suitable to manage projects in moderately dynamic environments. Results of the work shows that PMBOK® processes could be considered as micro-foundations of a project management dynamic capability.

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Hermano, V., Martín-Cruz, N. (2019). Expanding the Knowledge on Project Management Standards: A Look into the PMBOK® with Dynamic Lenses. In: Ayuso Muñoz, J., Yagüe Blanco, J., Capuz-Rizo, S. (eds) Project Management and Engineering Research. Lecture Notes in Management and Industrial Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92273-7_2

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