Pursuing relevance and sustainability: Improvement strategies for major public projects

International Journal of Managing Projects in Business

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 499-518

  Jonny Klakegg, Ole ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Decision making; Governance; Project evaluation; Sustainable development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864486888     PISSN: 17538378     EISSN: 17538386     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17538370910991115     Document Type: Article

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