Evolutionary Learning in Strategy-Project Systems

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Literature Review

Introduction

This chapter weaves together the various strands of literature to support the development of the conceptual framework in Chapter 4 and to give a reference base to the discussion in Chapter 7. Although there are many interconnections among the various themes presented here, there is also a logical sense of development starting from a justification of the research by qualifying project management as a strategic asset. One of the goals of this research was to take a more systemic worldview than is typical in project management research. The next section pushes out the boundaries of interest of the research to what we have termed the strategy-project system. This raises the importance of ...