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Chapter 1 - The Nature of Organizational Project Management through the Lens of Integration

from Part I - Strategy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 June 2017

By
Nathalie Drouin ,
Ralf Müller  and
Shankar Sankaran
Edited by
Shankar Sankaran ,
Ralf Müller  and
Nathalie Drouin
Shankar Sankaran
Affiliation:
University of Technology, Sydney
Ralf Müller
Affiliation:
BI Norwegian Business School
Nathalie Drouin
Affiliation:
Université du Québec à Montréal
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Cambridge Handbook of Organizational Project Management , pp. 9 - 18
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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