Reducing opportunistic behaviour through a project alliance

International Journal of Managing Projects in Business

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 660-679

  Laan, Albertus ^a   Voordijk, Hans ^a   Dewulf, Geert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Alliance contract; Construction industry; Employees; Formal and informal control; Opportunistic behaviour; Project alliance; Relational risks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857017638     PISSN: 17538378     EISSN: 17538386     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17538371111164065     Document Type: Article

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