Prospects for Professionalism in Project Management

The Oxford Handbook of Project Management

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Hodgson, Damian ^b   Muzio, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Institutionalized knowledge base; Internal organization; Legitimacy; Professional associations; Professionalism; Project management

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953282312     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199563142.003.0005     Document Type: Chapter

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