Institutional effects on project arrangement: High-speed rail projects in China and Taiwan

Construction Management and Economics

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 595-611

  Chi, Cheryl S F ^a   Javernick Will, Amy Nicole ^b  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

Author keywords

Industrial structure; Infrastructure; Political culture; Project; Project arrangements

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL STRUCTURES; INFRASTRUCTURE; POLITICAL CULTURE; PROJECT; PROJECT ARRANGEMENTS;

INDUSTRY; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; RAILROAD PLANT AND STRUCTURES; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION;

DECISION MAKING; DEVELOPMENT PROJECT; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION; INDUSTRIAL STRUCTURE; INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; RAILWAY TRANSPORT; REGULATORY FRAMEWORK;

EID: 79960536158     PISSN: 01446193     EISSN: 1466433X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01446193.2011.569734     Document Type: Article

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