NIEMINEN, Anu
Organisational control in programme teams : an empirical study in change programme context
- Amsterdam : Elsevier, January 2008
The objective of this paper is to identify control mechanisms anda control modes in change programme teams. We focused on the control relationships within a programme team consisting of project managers and a programme manager. We investigated four case programmes aiming at an organisational change and including a siginificant IT component, and identified 23 control mechanisms. The control mechanisms seemed to be complementary rather than substitutes, and the overall level of control in the case programmes varied significantly