Operationalizing governance categories of projects

International Journal of Project Management

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1346-1357

  Müller, Ralf ^a   Lecoeuvre, Laurence ^b  

^a BI NORWEGIAN BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Norway)

^b SKEMA BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

Author keywords

Categorization; Governance of projects; Modeling

Indexed keywords

MODELS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

CATEGORIZATION; CORPORATE GOVERNANCE; GOVERNANCE OF PROJECTS; GOVERNANCE STRUCTURES; ORGANIZATIONAL CONTROLS; PARENT ORGANIZATIONS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT THEORY; STAKEHOLDER ORIENTATIONS;

PUBLIC POLICY;

ACADEMIC RESEARCH; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; ORGANIZATIONAL FRAMEWORK; PLANNING METHOD; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; STAKEHOLDER;

EID: 84908068372     PISSN: 02637863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijproman.2014.04.005     Document Type: Article

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