The door is ajar—response to ‘Project management: a profession with a hole in its head or, why a change in the culture of academic support is needed for the profession’

Abstract

A personal view (response) is offered to three themes discussed within Morris [(2014) ‘Project management: a profession with a hole in its head’ or, why a change in the culture of academic support is needed for the profession’, The Engineering Project Organization Journal, available at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10. 1080/21573727.2013.873717 (published online, January, 2014)]. Specific themes responded to are: conceptual academic activity; the integrative function of academia in researching and delivering project management (PM) knowledge and stakeholders’ responsibilities for developing experiential PM competence.