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Leadership Profile of Croatian Project Managers - Investigating the Effects of Stress and Followers’ Expertise in Achieving Project Success

By: Ivan Matić  
Open Access
|Jun 2024

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Language: English
Page range: 32 - 49
Published on: Jun 29, 2024
Published by: University of Sarajevo
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
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