Project management artefacts and the emotions they evoke

International Journal of Managing Projects in Business

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 22-45

  Jonathan Whitty, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Affective psychology; Artefacts; Phenomenology; Project management

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955967102     PISSN: 17538378     EISSN: 17538386     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17538371011014017     Document Type: Article

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