3.1.2. AOM Journal
Overall, there were 50 occurrences of different allied disciplines from 32 AMJ papers. Approximately 60% of them were in the areas of OR/DS/OM/SCM (28%) and OB/ HRM (30%) followed by STARTEGY/PPM (16%) and TECH/INNOV/NPD/R&D (14%). IT/IS did not appear in AMJ. It seems that most project management related papers were published during the 1960s and 1970s [26– 32]. In the 1980s the number of PM papers published in AOM declined by one-third (there were only three papers in the 1980s) and from the 1990s papers published started to slowly catch up again. It is interesting to note that the 1980s were the time when International Journal of Project Management was first published and organizations started to recognize the benefits of applying project management tools and techniques to complex projects; however, AMJ showed little interest in project management research. OR/DS/OM/SCM, OB/HRM, and TECH/INNOV/ NPD/R&D are the three disciplines that show steady increase of research publication starting from the 1980s.