Project success and project team management: Evidence from capital projects in the process industries

Journal of Operations Management

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 749-766

  Scott Young, Christina ^a   Samson, Danny ^b  

^a Department of Management Information Systems   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Human resources operations interface; Organizational behavior; Project management; Project teams

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT; MANAGERS; MOBILE COMPUTING; PUBLIC POLICY;

BUSINESS OBJECTIVES; CAPITAL PROJECTS; CROSS-DISCIPLINARY; CROSS-FUNCTIONAL; DIMENSIONAL MODEL; EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATIONS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; HUMAN RESOURCES/OPERATIONS INTERFACE; OFFICE DESIGN; ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR; ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT; PROCESS INDUSTRIES; PROJECT CONSTRUCTION; PROJECT COSTS; PROJECT EXECUTION; PROJECT GOALS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT RESEARCH; PROJECT MANAGER; PROJECT MANAGERS; PROJECT OUTCOMES; PROJECT SUCCESS; PROJECT TEAMING; PROJECT TEAMS; VIRTUAL OFFICE;

PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 53349141070     PISSN: 02726963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jom.2007.10.006     Document Type: Article

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