The Governance of Project Coalitions-Towards a Research Agenda

Commercial Management of Projects: Defining the Discipline

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 324-343

  Winch, Graham M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bidding; Reconciliation; Signals; Theory; Transactions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889302148     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470759509.ch14     Document Type: Chapter

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