Relationships between leadership and success in different types of project complexities

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 77-90

  Müller, Ralf ^a,b   Geraldi, Joana ^c   Turner, J Rodney ^d  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b BI NORWEGIAN BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIV LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

Complexity; emotional intelligence; leadership; project management; project success

Indexed keywords

COMMON LANGUAGES; COMPLEXITY; EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE; FACTOR ANALYSIS; HIERARCHICAL REGRESSION; LEADERSHIP; LEADERSHIP COMPETENCE; MODERATING EFFECT; NON-PARAMETRIC TEST; PROJECT COMPLEXITY; PROJECT MANAGERS; PROJECT SUCCESS;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURVEYS;

PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84856450573     PISSN: 00189391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEM.2011.2114350     Document Type: Article

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