Foundations of project management research: An explicit and six-facet ontological framework

Project Management Journal

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 5-23

  Gauthier, Jacques Bernard ^a   Ika, Lavagnon A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC EN OUTAOUAIS   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

epistemology; ontology; project management history; project management research; theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866707490     PISSN: 87569728     EISSN: 19389507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pmj.21288     Document Type: Article

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