A participative research strategy for propagating soft methodologies in value management practice

Construction Management and Economics

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 329-340

  Green, S D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Briefing; Group decision support; Participative research; Risk management; Soft operational research; Value management

Indexed keywords

RISK MANAGEMENT;

BRIEFING; GROUP DECISION SUPPORTS; LITERATURE REVIEWS; MULTI-PERSPECTIVE; OPERATIONAL RESEARCH; RESEARCH STRATEGY; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEWS; VALUE MANAGEMENT;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

EID: 0040243649     PISSN: 01446193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/014461999371538     Document Type: Article

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