Best practices in project management through a grounded theory Lens

Electronic Journal of Business Research Methods

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 43-52

  Georgieva, Svetla ^a   Allan, George ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conceptualization; Grounded theory methodology; Open coding; Project management; Theoretical coding

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954753053     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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