On the discourse of construction competitiveness

Building Research and Information

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 426-435

  Green, Stuart D ^a   Harty, Chris ^a   Elmualim, Abbas Ali ^a   Larsen, Graeme D ^a   Kao, Chung Chin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Competitiveness; Construction performance; Discourse; Enterprise culture; Lean construction; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; MANAGEMENT; PROCESS ENGINEERING; QUALITY ASSURANCE; QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TECHNOLOGY; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

BUSINESS PROCESS RE-ENGINEERING; COMPETITIVENESS; CONSTRUCTION PERFORMANCE; CONTRACTING FIRMS; CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY; DISCOURSE; ENTERPRISE CULTURE; HUMAN CAPITAL; LEAN CONSTRUCTION; STRUCTURAL FLEXIBILITIES; SUSTAINABILITY; UK CONSTRUCTION;

INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS;

EID: 49549122648     PISSN: 09613218     EISSN: 14664321     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09613210802076666     Document Type: Article

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