Implementing Strategy through Projects

The Oxford Handbook of Project Management

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Loch, Christoph ^a   Kavadias, Stylianos ^b  

^a INSEAD   (France)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Business tensions; Project managers; Project stakeholders; Strategy alignment; Strategy implementation; Strategy making

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924935290     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199563142.003.0010     Document Type: Chapter

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