Coordinating temporary organizations in international development through social and temporal embeddedness

International Journal of Project Management

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 190-199

  Pilbeam, Colin ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

International development; Managing project; Managing the process life cycle

Indexed keywords

INNOVATION; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

EMBEDDEDNESS; INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT; MANAGING PROJECTS; MANAGING THE PROCESS-LIFE-CYCLE; PROCESS MODEL; SHARED UNDERSTANDING; SOCIAL EMBEDDEDNESS;

SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

NUMERICAL MODEL; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84870737399     PISSN: 02637863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijproman.2012.06.004     Document Type: Article

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