Establishing project portfolio management: An exploratory analysis of the influence of internal stakeholders' interactions

Project Management Journal

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 16-32

  Beringer, Claus ^a   Jonas, Daniel ^b   Georg Gemünden, Hans ^c  

^a SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^b Campana and Schott   (Germany)

^c TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

project portfolio management; project portfolio stakeholders; stakeholder behavior; stakeholder management; stakeholder theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871425377     PISSN: 87569728     EISSN: 19389507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pmj.21307     Document Type: Article

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