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CHAPTER 3

THE FUTURE OF PROJECT
MANAGEMENT: MAPPING

THE DYNAMICS OF

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

FIELD IN ACTION

Christophe N. Bredillet
ESC Lille, France

Professor Christophe N. Bredillet holds a Ph.D., a D.Sc., an MBA, and
engineering degree from Ecole Centrale Lille. He is a certified project
director level A (IPMA), PRINCE2 practitioner, and certified cost engi-
neer. He has been working at ESC Lille since 1992, where he is cur-
rently professor of strategy, program and project management and
associate dean, director of postgraduate programmes at ESC Lille. He
is strongly involved in project management research networks
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(IRNOP, EPSRC, and PMI ). His main interests and research activities
are in the field of program/project management (principles and theo-
ries of program/project management, knowledge management, bod-
ies of knowledge, standards, use of system dynamics modeling to
design life-long learning structures in project management) and busi-
ness dynamics (use of systems thinking and system dynamics in both
program/project and strategic management). In both the research
and professional domains, he is strongly involved with professional
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project management associations [PMI , IPMA, and PMCC (Japan)].

These commitments enable him to be strongly aware of project man-
agement research and cutting-edge professional practice.

ABSTRACT

If project management is a well-accepted mode of managing organizations, more and
more organizations are adopting project management in order to satisfy the diversified
needs of application areas within a variety of industries and organizations. Concurrently,
the number of project management practitioners and people involved at various level of
qualification is rising vigorously. Thus the importance of characterizing, defining, and
understanding this field and its underlying strengths, bases, and development is para-
mount. For this purpose, this chapter will refer to the sociology of actor networks and
qualitative scientometrics leading to choice of the coword-analysis method in enabling

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