Organizational decision making and the project manager

International Journal of Project Management

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 257-263

  Parkin, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Actor networks; Decision making; Organizations; Social judgement theory

Indexed keywords

ACTOR NETWORK THEORY; NODAL JUDGEMENTS; POWER RESOLUTION; PROBLEM DEFINITION; SOCIAL JUDGEMENT THEORY; SOCIAL VALUE STRUCTURE;

DECISION MAKING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0030269746     PISSN: 02637863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0263-7863(96)84508-X     Document Type: Article

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