Beyond frontiers of traditional project management: An approach to evolutionary, self-organizational principles and the complexity theory - Results of the research program

Project Management Journal

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 21-37

  Saynisch, Manfred ^a  

^a MSPM Foundation for PM and SPM CONSULT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Constructivist epistemology; Evolution first and second order; Evolution theory; Evolutionary management; Evolutionary project management; Grand evolutionary systems theory (GEST); Management of crisis; Nontraditional logic; Project management; Project management first and second order; Self organization; Social system theory; System theory of evolution; Theory of complexity

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650140084     PISSN: 87569728     EISSN: 19389507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pmj.20159     Document Type: Article

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