Characteristics of project management assets and project management process outcomes: An exploratory factor analysis

David Perkins, Kam Jugdev, Gita Mathur

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Abstract

The resource-based view of the firm from strategic management literature is applied to examine project management as a source of competitive advantage. In this view, assets contribute to competitive advantage if they add economic value, are rare, are difficult to imitate, and have organizational support. This research examines project management assets and project management process outcomes in a cross-industry study that attempts to replicate findings from a prior study, using the same survey tool with a larger sample. Exploratory factor analysis extracted four factors that comprised characteristics of project management assets that are valuable, rare, and inimitable, three factors that comprised of organizational support for project management assets, and two factors that comprised of project management process outcomes. The extracted factors mostly replicated the findings from the prior study; differences emerged in the factors that comprised of project management assets.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)59-77
Number of pages19
JournalInternational Journal of Information Technology Project Management
Volume9
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan. 2018

Keywords

  • Competitive advantage
  • Performance outcomes
  • Project management
  • Project management assets
  • Project management resources
  • Resource-based view
  • Strategic assets
  • Strategic resources

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