Researching complex projects: Using causal mapping to take a systems perspective

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Researching complex projects: Using causal mapping to take a systems perspective

Extant literature has called for researchers to be more pluralistic in their approaches to researching projects. Responding to this call, this paper offers an exposition of a causal mapping technique. In the project management literature, there already exists a small number of articles reporting eff...

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Main Authors:	Ackermann, Fran, Alexander, J.
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Pergamon 2016
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/40968

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