Title: Dynamic capabilities and project management: a systematic literature review

Authors: Vânia Patrício; Renato Lopes da Costa; Leandro Pereira; Nelson António

Addresses: WINNING Lab, ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal ' Business Research Unit – BRU-IUL, ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal ' WINNING Lab, ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal ' Business Research Unit – BRU-IUL, ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

Abstract: Project management became a critical tool for today's management success. Nevertheless, the field's authors reflect the difficulty of sharing empirical knowledge between projects. This condition empowered the dynamic capabilities research to become an active branch of science. The research team reviews the literature in the scope through the access of the 25 most cited papers, published from 2014 to 2019. The goal is to interpret and contribute to mitigating the project's missing link while pushing dynamic capabilities science. The findings point to the importance of two branches interrelation in the organisation's long-term success. The accessed papers emphasise common factors, mostly on dynamic capabilities on coming project management tasks. Project management and dynamic capabilities, although different in goals and separated as science branches, can fulfil its missing links. The first, working as an empirical knowledge provider to validate the second's theoretical models, and the latter's improving the prior's continuous learning between projects.

Keywords: dynamic capabilities; project management; systematic literature review.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBIR.2022.127621

International Journal of Business Innovation and Research, 2022 Vol.29 No.4, pp.417 - 448

Received: 10 Sep 2020
Accepted: 23 Sep 2020
Published online: 13 Dec 2022 *

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