Projects, paradigms and predictability

Advances in Strategic Management

Volumn 28, Issue , 2011, Pages 83-112

  Nightingale, Paul ^a   Brady, Tim ^a  

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EID: 84886496885     PISSN: 07423322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1108/S0742-3322(2011)0000028008     Document Type: Review

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