Exploring the Association between Project Management Knowledge Areas and Sustainable Outcomes

The popularity of sustainable outcomes has been recognized in development studies through the expression of terminologies including “sustainability” or “benefit sustainability” or “sustained benefits” or “sustainable benefits”. Despite benefits generated by development projects, funding termination is likely to bring the projects to an end. This incidence leads to discontinuity in initiated development. This paper investigates a linkage between project management knowledge areas (PMKA) and sustainable outcomes from four RHD projects in Thailand. Through quantitative data analysis using Chi-square and Cramer's V association, different combinations of association between 10 PMKA and 11 targeted sustainable outcomes of the RHD projects are revealed.