Competition

Commercial Management of Projects: Defining the Discipline

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 22-39

  Smyth, Hedley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Competition; External milieu; Greenpeace; Markets; Procurement

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889374318     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470759509.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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