Project leadership influences resistance to change: The case of the Canadian Public Service

Project Management Journal

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 45-64

  Lundy, Valerie ^a   Morin, Pierre Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC EN OUTAOUAIS   (Canada)

Author keywords

change; competencies; critical success factors; project leadership; public service; resistance to change

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882273575     PISSN: 87569728     EISSN: 19389507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pmj.21355     Document Type: Article

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