ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the challenges PM research faces in order to meet the expectations of practice. The place of projects in global economy, the consequences of uncertainty and complexity of the environment, the failure of rationalist project approaches to deliver expected benefits, both with regards to Practice and Theory, lead us to consider a praxeological style of reasoning balancing both modernism and post (or pre)-modernism approaches and so-called kaleidoscopic and pluralistic perspectives. Building on the example of PM schools of thought, three main aspects for research are discussed (non-(or post) paradigmatic PM science; ontological argument about the existence of projects and their management; and the relationship Theory-Practice). An emancipatory methodology for praxeological inquiry is then suggested.
