Failure and strategic projects: Australia's Asia-Pacific vision

Geoforum

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 136-144

  Weller, Sally A ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Crisis; Failure; Regulation theory; Strategic selectivity

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVENESS; DEVELOPMENT FAILURE; DEVELOPMENT PROJECT; STRATEGIC APPROACH;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 60849133307     PISSN: 00167185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2008.08.008     Document Type: Article

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