A client's perspective of critical success factors in project alliances

Association of Researchers in Construction Management, ARCOM 2009 - Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 217-226

  Mistry, Dina ^a   Davis, Peter R ^b  

^a Water Corp of Western Australia   (Australia)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alliance project delivery; Australia; Critical success factor; Procurement; Relationship

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTOR; PROCUREMENT; PROJECT DELIVERY; RELATIONSHIP;

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING;

EID: 84861048473     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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