Multi-level project governance: Trends and opportunities

International Journal of Project Management

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1291-1308

  Biesenthal, Christopher ^a   Wilden, Ralf ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Leximancer; Project governance; Project management; Review; Text mining

Indexed keywords

PROJECT MANAGEMENT; REVIEWS;

ENGINEERING JOURNALS; FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS; LEXIMANCER; MANAGEMENT JOURNALS; ORGANIZATIONAL LEVELS; PROJECT GOVERNANCE; STAKEHOLDER THEORY; TEXTUAL DATA MININGS;

TEXT MINING;

DATA MINING; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84908025630     PISSN: 02637863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijproman.2014.06.005     Document Type: Article

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