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“Neither a descriptive narrative of the past nor an un-reflexive account of its production should guide us” is a critique of the lack of either theoretical or policy direction contained in the paper titled “The past will guide us”. What is at issue is the atheoretical accounting of the past through the reliance on a simple account of its representation by the keywords used in the IJPM and the non-accounting of a focus group held with the editors of the journal. The future of project management will not be sustainable if it is to be developed on these atheoretical foundations of method and a policy premised on ‘looking back’. The field needs theory, and it needs to be part of a future attuned to the attainment of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (https://sdgs.un.org/goals).
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