Prioritizing and monitoring concurrent project work: Effects on switching behavior

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 847-860

  Bendoly, Elliot ^a   Swink, Morgan ^b   Simpson, Wendell P ^c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ProChain Solutions Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

experiment; monitoring; priorities; project management; switching

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900470361     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: 19375956     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/poms.12083     Document Type: Article

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