Projects-as-Practice: New Approach, New Insights

The Oxford Handbook of Project Management

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Hällgren, Markus ^a   Söderholm, Anders ^b  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b MID SWEDEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Organizational change; Project execution; Project management practice; Projects as practice; Social processes; Social sciences; Workdays

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924937559     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199563142.003.0022     Document Type: Chapter

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