Project sponsors and change sponsors, as well as project
managers and change agents, are corresponding roles of
project management (PM) and change management (CM) on the
domain of projects that are also second-order changes (i.e.,
change projects). However, the number of sources putting this
theoretical notion to test is close to none. We examined the
knowledge and understanding of practitioners from different
fields regarding CM and PM (role) conceptsbased on an
international online survey. Our findings point to an
observable asymmetry regarding CM-related and PM-related
knowledge. Respondents answers varied a lot more when it came
to defining changes compared to having to define projects. PM
is the better known scientific field and has a more prevalent
methodology. Survey results support previous theoretical
findings regarding the correspondence of the roles of the 1)
change sponsor and project sponsor and the 2) change agent
and project manager.
