Developing a city-level multi-project management information system for Chinese urbanization

International Journal of Project Management

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 510-527

  Li, Yongkui ^a   Lu, Yujie ^b   Kwak, Young Hoon ^c   Dong, Shuang ^a  

^a TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Case study; Complexity; Multi project; Project management information system; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION USE; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

AGENT CONSTRUCTION MODELS; COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; COMPLEXITY; CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS; DEVELOPMENT TECHNIQUE; MULTI-PROJECT MANAGEMENT; MULTI-PROJECTS; URBANIZATION;

PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84922670388     PISSN: 02637863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijproman.2014.06.011     Document Type: Article

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