Toward an approach to create self-organizing and reflexive information systems project practitioners

International Journal of Managing Projects in Business

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 316-333

  Sewchurran, Kosheek ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Information systems; Philosophy; Project management

Indexed keywords

EID: 81055137051     PISSN: 17538378     EISSN: 17538386     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17538370810883792     Document Type: Article

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