Business performance measurement practices in construction engineering organisations

Measuring Business Excellence

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 13-22

  Robinson, Herbert S ^a   Anumba, Chimay J ^a   Carillo, Patricia M ^a   Al Ghassani, Ahmed M ^b  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Loughborough University ^*  (Oman)

Author keywords

Balanced scorecard; Business Excellence Model; Construction industry; Performance measures

Indexed keywords

EID: 19944423175     PISSN: 13683047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13683040510588800     Document Type: Article

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