Quantifying uncertainty and equivocality in engineering projects

Construction Management and Economics

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 171-184

  Chang, Andrew S ^a   Tien, Chih Chiang ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Public Work Department   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Case study; Information processing; Organizational theory; Project management; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; ENGINEERS; MANAGERS; PLANNING; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

CASE STUDY; ENGINEERING PROJECTS; EQUIVOCALITY; ORGANIZATIONAL THEORY; SUBWAY DESIGN PROJECT; UNCERTAINTY;

PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

ENGINEERING;

EID: 32144434732     PISSN: 01446193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01446190500310353     Document Type: Article

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