After having obtained the results from this study, we believe that there are several research lines related with
conflict management, that can still be studied, one of the most important being the analysis of the impact that the
choice of every strategy has on the management of the expectations and the engagement of the project stakeholders.
A separate line, indirectly related to the previous one, would be the search for a more direct correlation between
the project’s performance and the different strategies that have been adopted. Taking into consideration the
experience accumulated in the present investigation, we consider it to be important to obtain a more objective
measurement of project performance in future research.
Another possibility would be to analyze the impact of the different conflict sources, in order to weigh the
importance of each type of management, regardless of the project, thus being able to concentrate the training and
efforts of the PMs on those strategies that have a greater effect on the conflicts of greater impact.
And lastly, we believe that due to the fact that the analysis has been contrasted only with a control group of
professionals and coming only from the consultancy sector, it could be interesting to broaden the results with a
comparative from different sectors, and a bigger sample to have not a control group but significant data for
professional field.