planning-oriented techniques as well as an application of engineering sciences and optimization theory [77]. In recent years, research interests in cross-disciplinary studies between PM and allied disciplines have become more pop¬ular evidenced by increased publications on these inte¬grated subjects in mainstream business and management journals. We have seen an explosion of popularity and strong interest in PM research starting from the 1980s and the trends are likely to continue in the future. It is important to note that PM is no longer merely a practice to plan, schedule, and execute projects effectively, but it is an academic field and one of the key management disci¬plines that consist of both practical/empirical research and theoretical research-based on solid academic theories and foundations.
Sir George Sayers Bain [78], past principal of the Lon¬don Business School (1989–1997) and past President of Queen’s University, Belfast (1998–2004), described how the position of management in Britain has changed over the second half of the twentieth century, identified the qual-ities required for successful managers in the 1990s and beyond, discussed the ways in which managers might acquire these qualities, and the role of business schools, companies and the wider society in this process, and made comments about the role of operational research in the future of management education. He stated:
Business schools are too functionally fragmented. Too much of their teaching and learning is compartmentalized into distinct disciplines. Students leave business schools thinking that there are accounting problems, finance prob-lems, marketing problems, production problems, and so on. What they find, however, are business problems which involve several of these functional areas-and which require managers to manage the interfaces between them. . . busi-ness schools concentrated mainly on problem-solving. They did so because problem-solving, to a greater extent than path breaking or implementation, lent itself to quan-tification and rigorous analysis. In short, it was more ‘scientific’ or at least more congenial to the academic mind. More recently, business schools have begun to put more emphasis on implementation, but still pay little attention to path breaking. What is now needed is more inter-disciplinary, issue-based, and project-based teaching, a greater stress on learning and less on teaching, and more emphasis on path breaking and implementation, including such process skills as negotiation and team building. In short, business schools need to develop a more balanced relationship between analysis and the more subjective aspects of management. (p. 560).
In the case of PM, the field is more applied and interdis-ciplinary than other management disciplines so naturally it is more difficult to justify the field as a distinguishable aca-demic discipline within the academic management commu-nity and more obstacles lie ahead. Benbasat and Weber [79] noted that in the early days of IS as a discipline, legitimacy and pressure to prove to colleagues in other disciplines was a challenge because of the nature and perceptions of IS research in the management academic community. How¬ever, there are some positive signs: More publications of PM research in allied disciplines, more papers are being recognized and published in mainstream management jour¬nals, and the trends of future research related to PM are strong and healthy based on our analysis
planning-oriented techniques as well as an application of engineering sciences and optimization theory [77]. In recent years, research interests in cross-disciplinary studies between PM and allied disciplines have become more pop¬ular evidenced by increased publications on these inte¬grated subjects in mainstream business and management journals. We have seen an explosion of popularity and strong interest in PM research starting from the 1980s and the trends are likely to continue in the future. It is important to note that PM is no longer merely a practice to plan, schedule, and execute projects effectively, but it is an academic field and one of the key management disci¬plines that consist of both practical/empirical research and theoretical research-based on solid academic theories and foundations.Sir George Sayers Bain [78], past principal of the Lon¬don Business School (1989–1997) and past President of Queen’s University, Belfast (1998–2004), described how the position of management in Britain has changed over the second half of the twentieth century, identified the qual-ities required for successful managers in the 1990s and beyond, discussed the ways in which managers might acquire these qualities, and the role of business schools, companies and the wider society in this process, and made comments about the role of operational research in the future of management education. He stated:Business schools are too functionally fragmented. Too much of their teaching and learning is compartmentalized into distinct disciplines. Students leave business schools thinking that there are accounting problems, finance prob-lems, marketing problems, production problems, and so on. What they find, however, are business problems which involve several of these functional areas-and which require managers to manage the interfaces between them. . . busi-ness schools concentrated mainly on problem-solving. They did so because problem-solving, to a greater extent than path breaking or implementation, lent itself to quan-tification and rigorous analysis. In short, it was more ‘scientific’ or at least more congenial to the academic mind. More recently, business schools have begun to put more emphasis on implementation, but still pay little attention to path breaking. What is now needed is more inter-disciplinary, issue-based, and project-based teaching, a greater stress on learning and less on teaching, and more emphasis on path breaking and implementation, including such process skills as negotiation and team building. In short, business schools need to develop a more balanced relationship between analysis and the more subjective aspects of management. (p. 560).In the case of PM, the field is more applied and interdis-ciplinary than other management disciplines so naturally it is more difficult to justify the field as a distinguishable aca-demic discipline within the academic management commu-nity and more obstacles lie ahead. Benbasat and Weber [79] noted that in the early days of IS as a discipline, legitimacy and pressure to prove to colleagues in other disciplines was a challenge because of the nature and perceptions of IS research in the management academic community. How¬ever, there are some positive signs: More publications of PM research in allied disciplines, more papers are being recognized and published in mainstream management jour¬nals, and the trends of future research related to PM are strong and healthy based on our analysis
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