Trust in Relational Contracting and as a Critical Organizational Attribute

The Oxford Handbook of Project Management

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Gil, Nuno A ^b   Pinto, Jeffrey K ^b   Smyth, Hedley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Inter organizational relationships; Organizational attribute; Project management; Project based organizations; Relational contracting; Stakeholder relationships

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924939763     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199563142.003.0019     Document Type: Chapter

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