Forecasting success on large projects: Developing reliable scales to predict multiple perspectives by multiple stakeholders over multiple time frames

Project Management Journal

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 87-99

  Turner, Rodney ^a   Zolin, Roxanne ^b  

^a UNIV LILLE   (France)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

leading performance indicators; project complexity; project failure factors; project success criteria; project success factors; stakeholders

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866648156     PISSN: 87569728     EISSN: 19389507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pmj.21289     Document Type: Review

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