Project Ecologies: A Contextual View on Temporary Organizations

The Oxford Handbook of Project Management

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Grabher, Gernot ^a   Ibert, Oliver ^b,c  

^a HAFENCITY UNIVERSITY HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON SOCIETY AND SPACE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conceptual framework; Institutional resources; Interpersonal networks; Personal resources; Project analysis; Project ecology; Project based learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 81755176409     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199563142.003.0008     Document Type: Chapter

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