Multiple perspectives on organizing: Projects between tyranny and perforation

Building Research and Information

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 536-546

  Koch, Christian ^a   Bendixen, Mads ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Communities of practice; Consultancy management; Consulting engineering; Interaction; Organizational structure; Project management; Team integration; Workplace effectiveness

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY;

COLLABORATION; COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE; CONSULTANCY MANAGEMENT; CONSULTING ENGINEERING; INTERACTION; ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE; TEAM INTEGRATION; WORKPLACE EFFECTIVENESS;

PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 27344460095     PISSN: 09613218     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09613210500294694     Document Type: Review

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