Organisational structures to support concurrent engineering in construction

Industrial Management and Data Systems

Volumn 102, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 260-270

  Anumba, Chimay J ^a   Baugh, Catherine ^a   Khalfan, Malik M A ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Construction industry; Organizational structure; Simultaneous engineering

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; COST EFFECTIVENESS; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURES;

CONCURRENT ENGINEERING;

EID: 0036338256     PISSN: 02635577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02635570210428294     Document Type: Article

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