The management of international development projects: Moving toward a standard approach or differentiation?

Project Management Journal

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 45-61

  Landoni, Paolo ^a   Corti, Benedetta ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

International development and cooperation; Logical framework; Managing international projects; Managing the process life cycle; Project management procedures

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955965155     PISSN: 87569728     EISSN: 19389507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pmj.20231     Document Type: Article

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