Modeling and Simulating Coordination in Projects

Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 33-56

  Christensen, Lars Chr ^a   Christiansen, Tore R ^a   Jin, Yan ^b   Kunz, John ^b   Levitt, Raymond E ^b  

^a DNV GL   (Norway)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Coordination; Enterprise modeling; Information processing; Project management; Quality function deployment; Simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010683677     PISSN: 10919392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327744joce0901_3     Document Type: Article

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