Leadership substitutes and personality impact on time and quality in virtual new product development projects

Project Management Journal

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 73-90

  Strang, Kenneth David ^a,b,c  

^a APPC International Market Research   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Competencies; Leadership substitutes; Personality; Scope quality; Time performance; Transformational transactional leadership; Virtual product development

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955948507     PISSN: 87569728     EISSN: 19389507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pmj.20208     Document Type: Article

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