Project management information control systems

Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 735-754

  Shahid, Syed ^a   Froese, Thomas ^b  

^a University of British Columbia ^*  (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Construction management; Databases; Document control; Information flow; Project management

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SUPERVISORY PERSONNEL; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

CONSTRUCTION MANAGERS; DOCUMENT CONTROL;

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY;

CONSTRUCTION PROJECT;

EID: 0032147772     PISSN: 03151468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/l98-012     Document Type: Article

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