Towards a New Paradigm of Project Management: A Bibliometric Review

John Aliu, Ayodeji Emmanuel Oke, Ahmed Farouk Kineber (), Andrew Ebekozien, Clinton Ohis Aigbavboa, Naif Sultan Alaboud and Ahmed Osama Daoud
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John Aliu: Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems, College of Engineering, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Ayodeji Emmanuel Oke: Department of Quantity Surveying, Federal University of Technology Akure, Akure 340110, Nigeria
Ahmed Farouk Kineber: Department of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering in Al-Kharj, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Al-Kharj 11942, Saudi Arabia
Andrew Ebekozien: Department of Quantity Surveying, Auchi Polytechnic, Auchi 312101, Nigeria
Clinton Ohis Aigbavboa: CIDB Centre of Excellence, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg 2092, South Africa
Naif Sultan Alaboud: Islamic Architecture Department, Faculty of Engineering & Islamic Architecture, Umm Al-Qura University, Mecca 24382, Saudi Arabia
Ahmed Osama Daoud: Civil Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, The British University in Egypt (BUE), El Sherouk City, Cairo 11837, Egypt

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 13, 1-17

Abstract: The advent of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) has triggered a digital transformation across several industries, including the project management (PM) profession. To achieve competitive advantages, construction industry employers must now utilise technology and data for strategy development, project execution, and delivery. This study reviews the concept of PM through research published on the Elsevier Scopus database from 2010 to date using a sequence of bibliometric analyses. Keywords such as “project management” AND “project management tools” AND “project management techniques” AND “construction industry” AND “built environment” were used for article extraction. VOSviewer, a text-mining tool, was used to analyse the bibliometric connection in PM research within the built environment discipline. Through the sequencing of cluster analysis, the findings revealed that research focus is placed on sustainable development (SD), construction safety (CS), engineering education (EE), project management stakeholders (PMS), risk management (RM), and building information modelling (BIM). More so, the current research focus in PM studies is tending towards knowledge management (KM) and construction innovation (CI). Based on a critical review of extant literature, very few studies have bibliometrically analysed and visualised PM studies. This study sets out to fill this gap by examining the key areas of concentration in published works on the PM concept from 2010 to date. Despite the valuable contribution of this study to the PM body of knowledge, generalisations of the results must be made cautiously due to the use of a single database, which in this case is Elsevier Scopus.

Keywords: construction management; engineering education; fourth industrial revolution; project management; project management education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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