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5 September 2016
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Review Article| September 05 2016

Making projects critical 15 years on: a retrospective reflection (2001-2016)

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Damian Hodgson can be contacted at: damian.hodgson@manchester.ac.uk
Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Received: October 27 2015
Revision Received: December 17 2015
Accepted: December 18 2015
Online ISSN: 1753-8386
Print ISSN: 1753-8378
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2016
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International Journal of Managing Projects in Business (2016) 9 (4): 744–751.
https://doi.org/10.1108/IJMPB-10-2015-0105
Article history
Received:
October 27 2015
Revision Received:
December 17 2015
Accepted:
December 18 2015

The purpose of this paper is to review the formation and evolution of the “Making Projects Critical” movement in project management research.

Retrospective and discursive paper.

Reflections on tensions and challenges faced by the MPC movement.

The paper establishes the historical trajectory of this movement and clarifies the tensions and challenges faced by MPC.

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