Organizational enablers for governance and governmentality of projects: A literature review

International Journal of Project Management

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1309-1320

  Müller, Ralf ^a   Pemsel, Sofia ^b   Shao, Jingting ^c  

^a BI NORWEGIAN BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Norway)

^b Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

^c CHINESE ACADEMY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Governance of projects; Governmentality; Literature review; Organizational enablers; Project governance

Indexed keywords

PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

GOVERNANCE OF PROJECTS; GOVERNMENTALITY; LITERATURE REVIEWS; ORGANIZATIONAL ENABLERS; PROJECT GOVERNANCE;

FLEXIBLE STRUCTURES;

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; FUTURE PROSPECT; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; ORGANIZATIONAL FRAMEWORK; PLANNING METHOD; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84908077651     PISSN: 02637863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijproman.2014.03.007     Document Type: Article

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