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Chapter 14 - Project Teams and Their Role in Organizational Project Management

from Part III - People

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 June 2017

By
Nathalie Drouin  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. 200 - 214
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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