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Competitive advantages of organizational project management maturity: A quantitative descriptive study in Australia

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  • Garry Huang
  • Shwn-Meei Lee
  • Daniel L Clinciu

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The purpose of this study is to examine whether organizational project management maturity in the project management consultancy industry offers any competitive advantages to a business when it tenders for contracts. We collected 150 responses from both members and former members of professional Australian project management associations in order to examine and understand any potential effects of project management maturity on management and organizations. The statistical software SPSS was used to analyze the data collected with the confidence interval (alpha) set at 5%. The results of this study reveal that organizational project management maturity has an effect on competitive advantages as noted by the project managers (p

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  • Garry Huang & Shwn-Meei Lee & Daniel L Clinciu, 2023. "Competitive advantages of organizational project management maturity: A quantitative descriptive study in Australia," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 18(6), pages 1-10, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0287225
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0287225
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