Unstructuring incompetence: Problems of contracting, trust and the development of the channel tunnel

Technology Analysis and Strategic Management

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 419-436

  Genus, Audley ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0002948243     PISSN: 09537325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09537329708524295     Document Type: Article

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3. Ibid.
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17. Ibid., p. 34.
18. Ibid., p. 34.
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20. Ibid. p. 125.
21. Ibid.
22. Ibid.
23. Ibid., p. 126.
24. Ibid.
25. A. Morton, Transcript of Speech to EC Banks in the City, London, 20 October 1995.
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28. Ibid.
29. Ibid., p. 153.
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31. Genus, op. cit., Ref. 4.
32. T. M. Ridley, 'The Role of Eurotunnel', in: The Channel Tunnel, proceedings of a conference organized by the Institution of Civil Engineering and the Société des Ingénieurs et Scientifiques de France (London, Thomas Telford, 1989).
33. Anderson & Roskrow, op. cit., Ref. 27.
34. For example, see: D. Collingridge, The Management of Scale (London, Routledge, 1992) on the development of nuclear power and the space shuttle, among other large-scale technologies; A. Genus, 'The Social Control of Large-scale Technological Projects: Inflexibility, Non-incrementality and British North Sea Oil', Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, 4, 1992, pp. 133-148; and P. W. G. Morris & G. H. Hough, The Anatomy of Major Projects: A Study of the Reality of Project Management (Chichester, Wiley, 1987), on the development of Concorde, among other major investments.
35. For example, see: D. Collingridge, The Management of Scale (London, Routledge, 1992) on the development of nuclear power and the space shuttle, among other large-scale technologies; A. Genus, 'The Social Control of Large-scale Technological Projects: Inflexibility, Non-incrementality and British North Sea Oil', Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, 4, 1992, pp. 133-148; and P. W. G. Morris & G. H. Hough, The Anatomy of Major Projects: A Study of the Reality of Project Management (Chichester, Wiley, 1987), on the development of Concorde, among other major investments.
36. For example, see: D. Collingridge, The Management of Scale (London, Routledge, 1992) on the development of nuclear power and the space shuttle, among other large-scale technologies; A. Genus, 'The Social Control of Large-scale Technological Projects: Inflexibility, Non-incrementality and British North Sea Oil', Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, 4, 1992, pp. 133-148; and P. W. G. Morris & G. H. Hough, The Anatomy of Major Projects: A Study of the Reality of Project Management (Chichester, Wiley, 1987), on the development of Concorde, among other major investments.