Does the research in the project management field match the IPMA Competence Baseline?

The model of IPMA about the competencies in project management is codified in the IPMA Competence Baseline. Those competencies should be part of the knowledge and know-how of project managers as crucial factors to be effective and competitive. But it is quite common sense that effectiveness and competitiveness require people to be innovative and up to date; that is true, of course, also for the competence baseline outlined by IPMA. The research in project management represents a way for developing and keeping updated the competence baseline. This paper aims to find which are the main competencies discussed in the papers of the last IPMA world congresses and the areas where researchers and practitioners seem to be more trusted in. The outcomes could help the IPMA community in finding more systematically the fields where it is needed to improve the knowledge and the know-how for the benefit of the people interested in project management.