Project organizations as social networks

Journal of Construction Engineering and Management

Volumn 136, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 452-458

  Chinowsky, Paul S ^a   Diekmann, James ^a   O'Brien, John ^a  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

Author keywords

Construction industry; High performance teams; Knowledge management; Knowledge based systems; Organizations; Project communications; Social factors

Indexed keywords

FULL SERVICE; INNOVATIVE APPROACHES; MULTI-PERSPECTIVE; ORGANIZATIONS; PROJECT COMMUNICATIONS; PROJECT ORGANIZATION; PROJECT TEAM; SOCIAL FACTOR; SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS; SOCIAL NETWORKS; TEAM MEMBERS;

BIOGRAPHIES; COMMUNICATION; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT SCIENCE; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 77949716015     PISSN: 07339364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)CO.1943-7862.0000161     Document Type: Article

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