Communication and co-operation on projects between the project owner as principal and the project manager as agent

European Management Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 327-336

  Turner, J Rodney ^a   Müller, Ralf ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Communication; Cooperation; Empowerment; Principal agency Theory; Projects; Trust

Indexed keywords

EID: 2642544705     PISSN: 02632373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.emj.2004.04.010     Document Type: Article

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