3.1.3. AOM Review
There were 24 occurrences from 11 papers in AMR. AMR started to publish more project management related papers from the 2000s. Similar to AMJ, subjects related to OR/DS/OM/SCM (29%), OB/HR (25%) and STRATEGY/PPM (21%) were the three allied disciplines that encompassed 75% of the occurrences. There were no papers related to EC/CONTRACT/LEGAL and QM/ 6SIGMA/PI. Most papers dealt with two or more allied disciplines that are discussed together. There papers covered three different areas: organizational alignment and strategy [33], NPD and strategic alliances [34], and cost and resource allocation [35].
3.2. Informs
The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences is ‘‘the largest professional society in the world for professionals in the field of Operations Research (OR). It was established in 1995 with the merger of the Operations Research Society of America (ORSA) and The Institute of Management Sciences (TIMS). The Institute serves as a focal point for OR professionals, permit¬ting them to communicate with each other and reach out to other professional societies, as well as the varied clientele of the profession’s research and practice” [36]. From the 12 scholarly journals published by INFORMS, we selected five journals to analyze project management research trends in their representative fields. They are Interfaces (practice-oriented), Operations Research, Management Sci¬ence, Organization Science, and Information Systems Research.