Organizational rationality and project management

International Journal of Managing Projects in Business

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 479-498

  Andersen, Erling S ^a   Dysvik, Anders ^a   Live Vaagaasar, Anne ^a  

^a BI NORWEGIAN BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Organizational culture; Project evaluation; Project management; Rationalization

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650210212     PISSN: 17538378     EISSN: 17538386     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17538370910991106     Document Type: Article

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