Project management in small to medium-sized enterprises: Tailoring the practices to the size of company

Management Decision

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 942-957

  Turner, Rodney ^a   Ledwith, Ann ^b   Kelly, John ^b  

^a SKEMA BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Age of company; Project management practices; Size of company; Size of project; Small to medium sized opportunities

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861356323     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251741211227627     Document Type: Article

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