Looking again at current practice in project management

International Journal of Managing Projects in Business

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 553-572

  Fortune, Joyce ^a   White, Diana ^a   Jugdev, Kam ^a   Walker, Derek ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b ATHABASCA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Australia; Canada; Project management; United Kingdom

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872328364     PISSN: 17538378     EISSN: 17538386     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17538371111164010     Document Type: Article

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