Client's championing characteristics that promote construction innovation

Construction Innovation

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 380-398

  Tookey, John E ^a   Kulatunga, Kushan ^a   Kulatunga, Udayangani ^b   Amaratunga, Dilanthi ^b   Haigh, Richard ^b  

^a The University of Salford ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bridges; Client; Construction industry; Innovation; Roads; United Kingdom

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855689649     PISSN: 14714175     EISSN: 14770857     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14714171111175873     Document Type: Article

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