Conclusion

Undoubtedly, although the survey results presented here are in a preliminary stage and consequently very general, this statistical information leads to repeating the absolute necessity to more contextualize our knowledge in project management and to attempt to reinforce the external validity of project management research. This conclusion is reinforced when we pay attention to the organizational dimension of project management (project roles, dedication time to project activity, experience in project management, type of organizational structure, and so on). Nonetheless, this database in project management already has the sufficient size to offer a good overview of project management in France. The same questionnaire is going to be administrated in Quebec and soon in Australia, so international comparison can be realized. A benchmarking service on a website is proposed to French companies in the same spirit of Slevin and Pinto's "project implementation profile" and will permit us to continually fuel the database. The next step should be to use it as an analysis tool to verify the pertinence of causal hypotheses, of which there are numerous ones, as this chapter suggests.