An investigation of the status of the Malaysian construction industry

Benchmarking

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 294-308

  Ibrahim, Abdul Razak Bin ^a   Roy, Matthew H ^b   Ahmed, Zafar ^c   Imtiaz, Ghaffar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH   (United States)

^c Fahad Bin Sultan University   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Construction industry; Lean production; Malaysia

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952191060     PISSN: 14635771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14635771011036357     Document Type: Article

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