Principles of complexity and chaos theory in project execution: A new approach to management

Cost Engineering (Morgantown, West Virginia)

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 23-33

  Singh, Hannr ^a   Singh, Amarjit ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Change; Disorder; Growth; Innovation; Instability; Unpredictability

Indexed keywords

EID: 41449086680     PISSN: 02749696     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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