Projects and firms as discordant complements: Organisational learning in the Munich software ecology

Research Policy

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1529-1546

  Ibert, Oliver ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Organisational learning; Project; Project ecology; Project based firm; Software development

Indexed keywords

COSTS; ECOLOGY; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MARKETING; PERSONNEL; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING; PROJECT ECOLOGY; PROJECT-BASED FIRMS; PROJECTS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 10244252383     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2004.08.010     Document Type: Article

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