Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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276986 | International Journal of Project Management | 2008 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
This paper aims at providing a grounded theoretical foundation on which to base a better understanding of organisational project management. This paper delivers empirical evidence that project management offices (PMOs) and organisational project management can be understood as part of an historical process within an organisational context, departing from the traditional boundaries of positivist project management theory. The history of PMOs in four organisations is documented and analysed. The evolution of the organisations and their PMOs is punctuated with events, tensions and changes. An historical process provides a better basis for the development of a theory on PMOs and more globally on organisational project management.
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Authors
Monique Aubry, Brian Hobbs, Denis Thuillier,