A contextual understanding of projects-The importance of space and time

Scandinavian Journal of Management

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 327-339

  Maaninen Olsson, Eva ^a   Müllern, Tomas ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b JÖNKÖPING INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Boundary spanning; Context; Project; Space; Time

Indexed keywords

EID: 68349086916     PISSN: 09565221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scaman.2009.03.011     Document Type: Article

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