The influence of experience and information search styles on project risk identification performance

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 315-326

  Maytorena, Eunice ^a   Winch, Graham M ^a   Freeman, Jim ^a   Kiely, Tom ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b Miller Construction   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Active information search; Cognitive mapping; Project risk identification; Project risk management

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MAPPING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

ACTIVE INFORMATION SEARCH; COGNITIVE MAPPING; PROJECT RISK IDENTIFICATION; PROJECT RISK MANAGEMENT;

RISK MANAGEMENT;

EID: 34247561671     PISSN: 00189391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEM.2007.893993     Document Type: Article

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