An investigation of the relationship between organizational culture and the performance of construction organizations

Journal of Business Economics and Management

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 688-704

  Cheung, Sai On ^a   Wong, Peter S P ^a,b   Lam, Anna L ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

construction; innovation; organizational culture; organizations; performance; Structural Equation Model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866685451     PISSN: 16111699     EISSN: 20294433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3846/16111699.2011.620157     Document Type: Article

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