Competing management approaches in large engineering projects: The Dutch RandstadRail project

International Journal of Project Management

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 740-750

  Koppenjan, Joop ^a   Veeneman, Wijnand ^b   van der Voort, Haiko ^b   ten Heuvelhof, Ernst ^b   Leijten, Martijn ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Complexity; Control; Flexibility; Large engineering projects; Project management; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

COMPLEXITY; ENGINEERING PROJECT; FLEXIBILITY; LARGE ENGINEERING PROJECTS; LIGHT RAIL PROJECT; NETHERLANDS; PLANNING AND CONTROL; PROJECT MANAGERS; PROJECT SUCCESS; UNCERTAINTY;

MANAGERS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

PLANNING;

COMPLEXITY; ENGINEERING; PLANNING PRACTICE; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION; RAILWAY TRANSPORT;

EID: 79960051236     PISSN: 02637863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijproman.2010.07.003     Document Type: Article

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