Learning from project failure

Management of Knowledge in Project Environments

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 219-236

  Williams, Terry ^a   Ackermann, Fran ^a   Eden, Colin ^a   Howick, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

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