The door is ajar—response to ‘Project management: a profession with a hole in its head or, why a change in the culture of academic support is needed for the profession’

Abstract

A personal view (response) is offered to three themes discussed within Morris [(2014) ‘Project management: a profession with a hole in its head’ or, why a change in the culture of academic support is needed for the profession’, The Engineering Project Organization Journal, available at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/21573727.2013.873717 (published online, January, 2014)]. Specific themes responded to are: conceptual academic activity; the integrative function of academia in researching and delivering project management (PM) knowledge and stakeholders' responsibilities for developing experiential PM competence.

Keywords:

• Academic knowledge
• knowledge stakeholders
• opinion
• PM competence

Notes

1. Given this is personal opinion, first-person writing style is used, though I acknowledge that views can differ on this.

2. Or helping better understand it, or otherwise adding to evolutionary knowledge advancement.

3. History too, can play a role in PM learning (Holt, 2013; Kozak-Holland and Procter, 2014).