Reconciling order and chaos in multi-project firms

International Journal of Managing Projects in Business

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 149-158

  Geraldi, Joana G ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Organizational structures; Project management; Strategic alignment

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956934255     PISSN: 17538378     EISSN: 17538386     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17538370910930572     Document Type: Article

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