Projects, paths, and practices: Sustaining and leveraging project-based relationships

Industrial and Corporate Change

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1369-1402

  Manning, Stephan ^a   Sydow, Jörg ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTREPRENEUR; LEARNING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; TELEVISION;

EID: 80053050270     PISSN: 09606491     EISSN: 14643650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icc/dtr009     Document Type: Article

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