Soft systems: A fresh perspective for project management

Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Civil Engineering

Volumn 156, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 187-192

  Winter, Mark ^a   Checkland, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Management

Indexed keywords

MANAGERS; PERSONNEL TRAINING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

SOFT SYSTEMS;

CIVIL ENGINEERING;

CIVIL ENGINEERING;

EID: 0344287171     PISSN: 0965089X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/cien.2003.156.4.187     Document Type: Article

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