Projects, their quality at entry and challenges in the front-end phase

Making Essential Choices with Scant Information: Front-End Decision Making in Major Projects

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 18-35

  Samset, Knut ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

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EID: 85009266985     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1057/9780230236837     Document Type: Chapter

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