Project-as-practice: In search of project management research that matters

Project Management Journal

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 5-16

  Blomquist, Tomas ^a   Hällgren, Markus ^a   Nilsson, Andreas ^a   Söderholm, Anders ^b  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b MID SWEDEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Practice research; Project management research; Project as practice; Relevance challenges; Relevance based research

Indexed keywords

EID: 78049455180     PISSN: 87569728     EISSN: 19389507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pmj.20141     Document Type: Article

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