Managing the social trajectory: A practice perspective on project management

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 566-580

  Oleary, Tim ^a   Williams, Terry ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ethnography; organizational change; organizational factors; politics; project management theory; projects as practice

Indexed keywords

ETHNOGRAPHY; ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE; ORGANIZATIONAL FACTORS; POLITICS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT THEORY; PROJECTS-AS-PRACTICE;

PLANNING; TRAJECTORIES;

PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84880924025     PISSN: 00189391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEM.2012.2228206     Document Type: Article

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