Plans are nothing, changing plans is everything: The impact of changes on project success

Research Policy

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-15

  Dvir, Dov ^a   Lechler, Thomas ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Goal changes; Plan changes; Project planning; Project success

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL PATH ANALYSIS; INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; MANAGERS; PERT; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

PROJECT PLANNING; PROJECT SUCCESS;

PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0347269141     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2003.04.001     Document Type: Article

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