Knowledge sharing – promoting knowledge sharing across projects

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• deNade, J. and de Carvalho, M. (2017), “Knowledge management perspective of the project management office”, Brazilian Journal of Operations and Production Management, Vol. 14 No. 3, pp. 350-362.
• Desouza, K.C. and Evaristo, J.R. (2006) ‘Project management offices: a case of knowledge-based archetypes’, International Journal of Information Management, Vol. 26, No. 5, pp.414–423 [online]
• Eriksson, P.E., Leiringer, R., (2015). Explorative and exploitative learning in project-based organizations: improving knowledge governance through a project management office? Eng. Proj. Organ. J. 5, 160–179.
• Julian, J. (2008), “How project management office leaders facilitate cross-project learning and continuous improvement”, Project Management Journal, Vol. 39 No. 3, pp. 43-58, doi: 10.1002/pmj.
• Lee-Kelley L., Turner N. (2017). PMO managers’ self-determined participation in a purposeful virtual community-of-practice. International Journal of Project Management, 35(1), 64–77.
• Martinez Sanz, M. M., & Ortiz-Marcos, I. (2020). Dimensions of knowledge governance in a multi-PMO project context. International Journal of Managing Projects in Business, 13(7), 1423-1441.
• Müller R., Glückler J., Aubry M., Shao J. (2013). Project management knowledge flows in networks of project managers and project management offices: A case study in the pharma­ceutical industry. Project Management Journal, 44(2), 4–19.
• Nadae, J. de, & Carvalho, M. M. de. (2017). A knowledge management perspective of the project management office. Brazilian Journal of Operations & Production Management, 14(3), 350–362.
• Pemsel S., Wiewiora A. (2013). Project management office a knowledge broker in project-based organisations. International Journal of Project Management, 31(1), 31–42. Tshuma, B., Steyn, H. and Van Waveren, C. (2018), “The role played by PMOs in the transfer of knowledge between projects: a conceptual framework”, South African Journal of Industrial Engineering, Vol. 29 No. 2, pp. 127-140, doi: 10.7166/29-2-1966.
• Tshuma, B., Steyn, H., & Van Waveren, C. C. (2022). The mediation role of the PMO in the transfer of knowledge between projects–a case study of five PMOs. International Journal of Managing Projects in Business, 15(1), 150-174.
• Tshuma, B., Waveren, C. C. V., & Steyn, H. (2024). The supporting role of the project management office in the transfer of knowledge between projects-a study of five cases. International Journal of Project Organisation and Management, 16(1), 102-132.