Enhancing value in crucial decisions: Line 9 of the Barcelona subway

Journal of Management in Engineering

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 265-272

  Ormazabal, Gaizka ^a   Viñolas, Bernat ^b,c   Aguado, Antonio ^b  

^a IESE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^c Arbitrium Consulting

Author keywords

Construction; Decision making; Spain; Subways

Indexed keywords

PROBLEM SOLVING; RAILROADS; SUBWAYS; UNDERPASSES;

BARCELONA; BARCELONA , SPAIN; CONSTRUCTION; DECISION-MAKING PROCESS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONSEQUENCES; GAIN INSIGHT; INTEGRATED DECISION; INTEGRATED EVALUATION; NEW DESIGN; SPAIN; SUBWAY SYSTEMS; VALUE INDICES;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 51849151596     PISSN: 0742597X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0742-597X(2008)24:4(265)     Document Type: Article

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