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Chapter 7 - Project Portfolio Management

The Linchpin in Strategy Processes

from Part II - Organizations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 June 2017

By
Julian Kopmann ,
Alexander Kock  and
Catherine P. Killen
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. 92 - 105
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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