Integrated Project Management and Control: First Comes the Theory, then the Practice

Management for Professionals

Volumn Part F302, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-141

  Vanhoucke, Mario ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

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EID: 85162216422     PISSN: 21928096     EISSN: 2192810X     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-04331-9     Document Type: Chapter

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