Both project management and international development came of age as scholarly and practice domains in the 20th century. They share a central concern with organizing work and delivering change. Though international development played a role in defining the project management domain in the 1950s and the 1960s, there has been little cross-fertilization between project management and international development in recent decades. The centrality of projects in international development efforts and the need for project management to help tackle global challenges that overlap with international development, such as climate change and COVID-19, make such cross-learning timely and rewarding. Accordingly, with the aim of cross-fertilization and integration, this paper examines what connects and differentiates the two domains of project management and international development, both conceptually and through the distinctive nature of their modes of delivery. The paper lays out a research agenda for the interface between project management and international development.

项目管理和国际发展都在20世纪成为学术和实践领域。他们与组织工作和交付变更有着共同的关注点。尽管国际发展在1950年代和1960年代定义了项目管理领域中发挥了作用，但近几十年来，项目管理与国际发展之间几乎没有交叉。项目在国际发展努力中的中心地位以及项目管理的需要，以帮助应对与国际发展重叠的全球挑战，例如气候变化和COVID-19，使得这种交叉学习变得及时而有意义。因此，以交叉施肥和整合为目的，本文从概念上以及交付方式的独特性，研究了什么将项目管理和国际发展这两个领域联系起来并加以区别。该论文为项目管理与国际发展之间的联系提出了研究议程。