Information Management and the Management of Projects

The Oxford Handbook of Project Management

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Whyte, Jennifer ^a   Levitt, Raymond ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital technologies; Information management; Information technology; PM 1.0; Project management; Project based industries

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924943290     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199563142.003.0016     Document Type: Chapter

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