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Lookup NU author(s): Dr Luca Sabini, Professor Daniel Muzio, Dr Neil Alderman
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‘Sustainability’ has become a hot topic in recent years, both within society in general and in academic research in particular. Its achievement is often associated with the need to renovate the traditional way business is conducted within organizations, and that need for change is often connected with projects and project management methodologies. Last few years have seen a huge increase of publications at the intersection of these two topics. 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.
Author(s): Sabini L, Muzio D, Alderman N
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: International Journal of Project Management
Year: 2019
Volume: 37
Issue: 6
Pages: 820-838
Print publication date: 01/08/2019
Online publication date: 28/05/2019
Acceptance date: 06/05/2019
Date deposited: 10/07/2019
ISSN (print): 0263-7863
ISSN (electronic): 1873-4634
Publisher: Pergamon Press
URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijproman.2019.05.002
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijproman.2019.05.002
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