Identifying forces driving PMO changes

Project Management Journal

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 30-45

  Aubry, Monique ^a   Hobbs, Brian ^a   Müller, Ralf ^b,c,d   Blomquist, Tomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c BI NORWEGIAN BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Norway)

^d SKEMA BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

Author keywords

Drivers of change; Organizational change; Project management office (PMO); Transformation process

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650217948     PISSN: 87569728     EISSN: 19389507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pmj.20191     Document Type: Conference Paper

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