Investigating the effects of project management issues on control systems within public organizations

The widespread adoption of project management (PM) is undoubtedly associated with its practical diffusion (Whittington et al., 1999), which is particularly intensive in the case of certain specific industries (Ekstedt et al., 1999). The implementation of projects in public organizations has become an important issue recently. This interest stems from the need of a deep reform that has spread over almost all the OECD countries in the last two decades (Arnaboldi et al. 2004)