Leadership in project management: From firefighter to firelighter

Management Decision

Volumn 43, Issue 7-8, 2005, Pages 1032-1039

  Barber, Elizabeth ^a   Warn, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Leadership; Managers; Project management; Project teams

Indexed keywords

EID: 24744467840     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251740510610026     Document Type: Article

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