Investigation of the sponsor's role in project planning

Management Research Review

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 400-416

  Kloppenborg, Timothy J ^a   Tesch, Debbie ^a   Manolis, Chris ^a  

^a XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chief executives; Project management; Project planning

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953286176     PISSN: 20408269     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01409171111117852     Document Type: Article

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