Project spirit: Placing partakers' emotions, attitudes and norms in the context of project vision, artifacts, leader values, contextual performance and success

Journal of High Technology Management Research

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 2-13

  Aronson, Z H ^a   Shenhar, A J ^b,c   Reilly, R R ^a  

^a STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Contextual performance; Culture; Excitement; Project settings

Indexed keywords

CONTEXTUAL PERFORMANCE; EMPIRICAL FINDINGS; EMPIRICAL RESULTS; PROJECT LEADERS; PROJECT OUTCOMES; PROJECT PARTICIPANTS; PROJECT SUCCESS; PROJECT VISION;

PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 77950859908     PISSN: 10478310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hitech.2010.02.002     Document Type: Article

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