Innovating the Practice of Normative Control in Project Management Contractual Relations

The Oxford Handbook of Project Management

Volumn 9780199563142, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Clegg, Stewart ^a,b,c   Bjørkeng, Kjesti ^d   Pitsis, Tyrone ^a,d  

^a Key Research Centre for Management and Organization Studies   (Australia)

^b Copenhagen Business School ^*  (Denmark)

^c EMLYON BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alliancing; Contractual relations; Innovation; Normative control; Project management; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

EID: 81755176408     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199563142.003.0018     Document Type: Chapter

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