Sustaining inertia?:Construction clients' decisionmaking and informationprocessing approach to industrialized building innovations

Construction Innovation

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 393-413

  Alshawi, Mustafa ^a   Engström, Susanne ^a   Hedgren, Erika ^a  

^a LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Building specifications; Buildings; Clients; Construction innovation; Decision making; Industrialized building; Innovation; Judgment; Sweden

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867077192     PISSN: 14714175     EISSN: 14770857     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14714171211272180     Document Type: Article

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