Completing projects on-time: How project acceleration affects new product development

Journal of Engineering and Technology Management - JET-M

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 319-344

  Swink, Morgan ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Empirical research; Product development; Time based competition

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; COMPETITION; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RESEARCH;

TIME-BASED COMPETITION;

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 0142211035     PISSN: 09234748     EISSN: 18791719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jengtecman.2003.08.002     Document Type: Article

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