Emergence and role of cultural boundary spanners in global engineering Project networks

Journal of Management in Engineering

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 123-132

  Di Marco, Melissa K ^b   Taylor, John E ^a   Alin, Pauli ^b  

^a Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Boundary spanning; Cultural issues; Design and constructionry; Globalization; Organizational issues

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY SPANNING; CULTURAL BOUNDARIES; CULTURAL ISSUE; CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE; DESIGN PROJECTS; ENGINEERING PROJECT; GLOBAL NETWORKS; INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS; JOB OPPORTUNITIES; NETWORK ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; ORGANIZATIONAL ISSUES; PROJECT DELIVERY; PROJECT TEAM; QUALITATIVE OBSERVATIONS; SIMILAR DESIGN; THEORETICAL MODELS;

ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ENGINEERS;

DESIGN;

EID: 77953593653     PISSN: 0742597X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)ME.1943-5479.0000019     Document Type: Article

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