The impact of disruption and delay when compressing large projects: Going for incentives?

Journal of the Operational Research Society

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 26-34

  Howick, S ^a   Eden, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Disruption and delay; Project management; Risk; Simulation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

SYSTEM DYNAMICS;

PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0034830442     PISSN: 01605682     EISSN: 14769360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.jors.2601045     Document Type: Article

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