Approaches to project management in Africa: implications for international development projects

By N. Muriithi, L. Crawford. 2003

238 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Anthropology, Management Information Systems, Management Science and Operations Research

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In Anthropology

1. Terry Williams
2. Lavagnon A. Ika

In Management Information Systems

1. Lavagnon A. Ika
2. Amadou Diallo
3. Denis Thuillier
4. Terry Williams
5. Do Ba Khang
6. T. L. Moe

In Management Science and Operations Research

1. Lavagnon A. Ika
2. Amadou Diallo
3. Denis Thuillier
4. Indra Gunawan
5. Kamrul Ahsan
6. Terry Williams
7. Do Ba Khang
8. T. L. Moe

Citations in the corpus

• Analysis of cost and schedule performance of international development projects (2010, background): “Muriithi and Crawford [13] discuss approaches to project management in Africa with implications for ID projects.”
• Assessing and moving on from the dominant project management discourse in the light of project overruns (2005, background): “Remington and Crawford [60] indeed challenge the very notion that control of outcomes is possible or even desirable in a postmodern organization and environment “characterized by fluidity, ambiguity, and uncertainty”: “the notion of predetermined outcomes is unrealistic in all but short-term project”
• Project management in the international development industry (2010, background): “The research results are also significant since one needs to know which tools are available to African project coordinators before investigating what in the current PM orthodoxy works and what cannot work in Africa, as requested by Muriithi and Crawford (2003)”