Project leadership skills in cooperative projects

Management Research News

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 458-468

  Curran, Clive Steven ^a   Niedergassel, Benjamin ^a   Picker, Stefan ^b   Leker, Jens ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b HENKEL KGAA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biotechnology; Leadership; Project management; Project teams

Indexed keywords

EID: 68649114102     PISSN: 01409174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01409170910952958     Document Type: Article

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