Project governance: "schools of thought"

South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 22-32

  Bekker, Michiel C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Governance of projects; Governance through projects; Meta governance; Project governance; Project management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896457507     PISSN: 10158812     EISSN: 22223436     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4102/sajems.v17i1.595     Document Type: Article

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