During later project stages, as pressures to meet project schedule goals increase, the culture of the project is more conducive to making changes in work process.

The statement above is FALSE.
During later project stages, , the culture of the project is LESS conducive to making changes in work progress.
When a project is drawing to a close, it becomes relatively difficult to make important changes to the project plan. At this stage, any change in plan that is effected will be much costly compare to if the change has been made in the earlier stages.