Innovation and Sustainable Practices In Project Management Within Smes Context

This research aims to identify practices that might help to ensure innovation and sustainability through Project Management (PM) within Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs). Project-based economic activity has been highly increasing in the last decades, turning PM into a vehicle for implementing innovation and sustainability. A Systematic Literature Review (SLR) was conducted, considering articles in the Scopus and Web of Science databases to understand which innovation and sustainable practices have been adopted. In total, 166 innovation practices and 86 sustainable practices were identified. The main contributions of this work were to create evidence that sustainability and innovation share a knowledge intersection, especially concerning knowledge sharing; and sustainable environmental practices are much more numerous than sustainable social and economic practices.