Exploring project success

Baltic Journal of Management

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 127-147

  Andersen, Erling S ^a   Birchall, David ^b   Jessen, Svein Arne ^a   Money, Arthur H ^b  

^a BI NORWEGIAN BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Critical success factors; Project evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 40749150224     PISSN: 17465265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17465260610663854     Document Type: Article

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