Project Management Research Chair

Mission

To create an internationally recognised centre of excellence in project management research. The team is composed of twelve researchers of diverse origins is engaged in more than twenty research projects that have been grouped into five research axes:

  • Project Management Governance
  • Partnerships and Networking in Project Management
  • Processes, Practices and New Tools in Project Management
  • Competencies and Transfer of Learning
  • Competencies and Transfer of Learning

Call for Papers

The Call for Papers for the 2011 International Research Network on Organising by Projet (IRNOP) is available.

For information on the conference www.irnop2011.uqam.ca.

To download the Call for Papers click here.

Hélène Delerue has won the ESG UQAM Prize for a New and Upcoming Researcher.

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Jorge Niosi, Canada Research Chair in Technology Management, Hélène Delerue and Guy Cucumel Vice-Dean for Research

2 papers at the PMI Research Conference chosen among 10 best will be published in a special issue of the Project Management Journal

  • Monique Aubry, Brian Hobbs, Ralf Muller & Tomas Blomquist “Identifying Forces Driving PMO Changes”
  • Yvan Petit & Brian Hobbs, “Project Portfolios in Dynamic Environments: Sources of Uncertainty and Sensing Mechanisms”

Participations of the members of the Chair in conferences during the summer of 2010

Academy of Management, Montreal, August 6-10

PMI Research Conference, Washington DC, July 11-14

  • Serghei Floricel & John Michela, “Knowledge Production and the Success of Innovation Projects”
  • Claude Besner & Brian Hobbs, “An Empirical Identification of Project Management Toolsets and a Comparison among Project Types”
  • Monique Aubry, Brian Hobbs, Ralf Muller & Tomas Blomquist “Identifying Forces Driving PMO Changes”
  • Yvan Petit & Brian Hobbs, “Project Portfolios in Dynamic Environments: Sources of Uncertainty and Sensing Mechanisms”
  • Monique Aubry, Ralf Müller & Johannes Glückler, “Exploring PMOs through Community of Practice Theory”
  • Lavagnon Ika, Amadou Diallo & Denis Thuiller, "World Bank projects’ critical success factors and their interactions : an empirical investigation"

European Academy of Management (EURAM) Roma, May 19-22

20th IUHPE World Conference on Health Promotion, Geneva, July 11-15

  • M. Deschesnes, Nathalie Drouin & Y. Couturier “How to Strengthen the Schools Capabilities to Incorporate Innovation, such as the Health Promoting School Approach, into its Functioning?”