3.2.3. Management Science
MANAGEMENT SCIENCE had the most occurrences of project management allied disciplines in its published papers among the 18 top management journals. Project management research in MANAGEMENT SCIENCE reached a peak during the 1970s (24%), then started to decline during the 1980s (20%), and 1990s (18%) and is showing renewal of interest in the 2000s (29%). Many papers published in the 2000s discussed three different categories of allied disciplines which shows increasing trends in interdisciplinary research in project management [45– 48] [49–53]. Similar to OPERATIONS RESEARCH, OR/ DS/OM/SCM (29%) and STRATEGY/PPM (34%) were the areas that made up more than 60% of the publications subject occurrences while OB/HRM (6%) and EC/CON¬TRACT/LEGAL (3%) were the areas that had the lowest interest. There were no occurrences in papers in the area of QM/6SIGMA/PI.