Projects, people, professions: Trajectories of learning through a mega-event (the London 2012 case)

Geoforum

Volumn 65, Issue , 2015, Pages 328-337

  Grabher, Gernot ^a   Thiel, Joachim ^a  

^a HAFENCITY UNIVERSITY HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Careers; Large scale events; Learning trajectories; Olympic Games; Organizational geographies; Project based organizations

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTION METHOD; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING; OLYMPIC GAMES; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; STAKEHOLDER;

ENGLAND; LONDON [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84942367850     PISSN: 00167185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.02.006     Document Type: Article

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