Tinkering with material resources: Operating under ambiguous conditions in rock construction work

Learning Organization

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 386-397

  Styhre, Alexander ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Construction works; Resources; Rocks; Sweden; Working practices

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349642233     PISSN: 09696474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09696470910974171     Document Type: Article

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