Accelerating collaboration: Soft system imperatives for mobilising hard system developments

Collaborative Construction Information Management

Volumn 9780203883631, Issue , 2009, Pages 275-293

  Kumaraswamy, Mohan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DYNAMICS; HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT SCIENCE; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT;

CONSTRUCTION ORGANISATIONS; COOPERATIVE RELATIONSHIPS; INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; INTERNATIONAL CONSTRUCTION; MANAGEMENT SUPPORT SYSTEMS; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION AIDS; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; TECHNOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 78049521411     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203883631     Document Type: Chapter

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