Project management, strategic management and sustainable development : a review of the literature

Abstract

An organization with a commitment to sustainable principles needs incorporating a broad range of stakeholders and addressing environmental and social issues as their inter-relationship with financial issues. The purpose of this article is to review Project Management contributions that integrate sustainability issues with a managerial focus. A conceptual framework that integrates the project management, managerial and sustainable development fields provides a structure to the survey. The results show a lack of research contributing with methods or frameworks that discusses how project management should support an organization´s strategy and sustainability. The paper provides a contribution to researchers interested in project management concentrate their efforts to ensure project governance that integrates sustainability issues with management focus.