The effect of intervening conditions on the management of project risk

International Journal of Managing Projects in Business

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 602-610

  Kutsch, Elmar ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Project management; Risk management

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955380221     PISSN: 17538378     EISSN: 17538386     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17538370810906282     Document Type: Article

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