The purpose of this paper is to draw on the resource-based view of the firm from strategic management and apply it to a study of competitive advantage in the project management context. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) is used to examine the factors that constitute strategic characteristics of project management resources and outcomes of the project management process.,This study gathered data from 437 North American project management professionals using an existing survey tool from prior research involving a smaller sample.,The final model derived from CFA demonstrated construct validity, meaning acceptable convergent and discriminant validity. It showed only minor differences from a prior exploratory factor analysis (EFA). The final model consisted of two factors representing valuable project management characteristics, one factor representing rare project management characteristics, one factor representing inimitable project management characteristics, three factors representing organizational support for project management assets, one factor representing project-level performance and one factor representing firm-level performance.,Limitations of the study include self-report bias and the use of a panel for data collection.,This study draws managerial attention to project management characteristics that constitute a source of competitive advantage.,The study validates a survey tool from previous research, reflects few deviations from factor structure of the prior EFA, and sets the stage for future research to elaborate on the conceptual model. It extends understanding of the characteristics of project management assets that lead to a firm’s competitive advantage.

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项目管理资源和成果：验证性因素分析

本文的目的是从战略管理中借鉴企业基于资源的观点，并将其应用于研究项目管理环境中的竞争优势。验证性因素分析（CFA）用于检查构成项目管理资源的战略特征和项目管理过程结果的因素。该研究使用来自先前研究的现有调查工具，收集了来自437个北美项目管理专业人员的数据。较小的样本。来自CFA的最终模型证明了结构的有效性，这意味着可接受的收敛性和判别性有效性。与以前的探索性因素分析（EFA）相比，它只显示了很小的差异。最终模型由代表有价值的项目管理特征的两个因素组成，