Insights for the governance of large projects: Analysis of Organization Theory and Project Management: Administering Uncertainty in Norwegian Offshore Oil by Stinchcombe and Heimer

International Journal of Managing Projects in Business

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 661-679

  Ahola, Tuomas ^a   Davies, Andrew ^b  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Governance; Offshore; Oil industry; Project governance; Project management; Uncertainty management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84955155685     PISSN: 17538378     EISSN: 17538386     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17538371211268979     Document Type: Article

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