View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Firenze University Press: E-Journals Firenze University Press www.fupress.com/cambio Monographic Section A Royal Charter Is Not Enough – How PM Professional Associations Can Continually Show Citation: K. Wang, I. Stewart (2018) A Royal Charter Is Not Enough – How the Value of Professionalisation to the Markets PM Professional Associations Can Continually Show the Value of Profes- sionalisation to the Markets. Cambio Vol. 8, n. 16: 55-70. doi: 10.13128/ Kun Wang, Ian Stewart cambio-23233 University of Manchester Copyright: © 2018 K. Wang, I. Stew- E-mail:
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[email protected] art. This is an open access, peer- reviewed article published by Firenze University Press (http://www.fupress. Abstract. The Association for Project Management (APM) is engaged in the pro- com/cambio) and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attri- cess of raising the status and performance of Project Management (PM) in the UK. bution License, which permits unre- They have obtained a royal charter, regarded as the “locus of professionalisation”, stricted use, distribution, and reproduc- but can the APM really assist PM to achieve “a world where all projects succeed”, tion in any medium, provided the origi- when there is no provable link between professionalisation and performance of nal author and source are credited. practitioners? This current claim alone (along with chartership) will not improve Data Availability Statement: All rel- the profession’s market reputation, which also raises concerns regarding the APM evant data are within the paper and its tactics for growth by engaging practitioners and corporate partners.