Knowledge-salvage practices for dormant R&D projects

Project Management Journal

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 59-72

  Tukel, Oya I ^a   Kremic, Tibor ^b   Rom, Walter O ^a   Miller, Richard J ^a  

^a CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Knowledge banks; R D projects; System dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955970156     PISSN: 87569728     EISSN: 19389507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pmj.20207     Document Type: Article

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