Instrumental and supportive use of formal selection methods in R&D project selection

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 402-410

  Cabral Cardoso, Carlos ^a   Payne, Roy L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Management decision making; Political behavior; Political processes; R D project selection; RD E; RD E management; RD E organizations; Selection processes; Use of decision making models

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; SELECTION; SUPERVISORY PERSONNEL;

DECISION MAKING MODELS; POLITICAL BEHAVIOR; POLITICAL PROCESSES; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PROJECT SELECTION;

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0030291376     PISSN: 00189391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/17.543982     Document Type: Article

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