3.5. Other journals
In the Journal of Operations Management, OR/DS/OM/ SVM (43%) and STRATEGY/PPM (25%) were the two areas that had most occurrences followed by TECH/ INNOV/NPD/R&D (12%) and PERFORMANCE/EVM (10%). The other disciplines had very few occurrences in papers in their respected areas. Occurrences of publications show overall increasing trends. More detailed analysis reveals that OR/DS/OM/SCM decreased by about 50% and STRATEGY/PPM increased by about 75% between the 1990s and the 2000s.
IT/IS (46%), STRATEGY/PPM (22%), and OB/HRM (12%) were the three areas that had most occurrences in paper publications in MIS Quarterly. Perhaps IT/IS (46%) because of the nature of this journal, STRATEGY/PPM (22%) because of the managerial and strategic implications, and OB/HRM (12%) because of a strong interest in organizational implications. Occurrences in paper publications reached its peak in the 1980s (68%), then declined sharply in the 1990s and 2000s. This is an interesting trend but probably applies only to MIS Quarterly. In fact, there are many papers published in IT project management in other IS/IT related journals, but we believe that because of the editorial direction of MIS Quarterly, there were not many papers dealing with project management research.
Strategic Management Journal publishes original mate¬rial concerned with all aspects of strategic management [72]. STRATEGY/PPM (57%) and TECH/INNOV/ NPD/R&D (14%) had over 70% of the occurrences and were the two major topics that integrated project manage-