Leadership and teams in business: a study of IT projects in the United Arab Emirates

International Journal of Managing Projects in Business

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 28-48

  Randeree, Kasim ^a   Ninan, Mathews ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b IT Department   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Information technology; Leadership; Project teams; Team working; United Arab Emirates

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861830879     PISSN: 17538378     EISSN: 17538386     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17538371111096872     Document Type: Article

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