Modeling relational transaction and relationship quality among team members in public projects in Hong Kong

Automation in Construction

Volumn 36, Issue , 2013, Pages 16-24

  Ling, Florence Y Y ^a   Ning, Yan ^a   Ke, Yongjian ^a   Kumaraswamy, Mohan M ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Hong Kong; Prediction; Public projects; Relational contracts; Relationship quality

Indexed keywords

HONG-KONG; MATHEMATICAL EQUATIONS; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSIONS; PUBLIC CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS; PUBLIC PROJECT; RELATIONAL CONTRACTING; RELATIONAL CONTRACTS; RELATIONSHIP QUALITIES;

AUTOMATION; CIVIL ENGINEERING; FORECASTING;

LINEAR REGRESSION;

EID: 84884225347     PISSN: 09265805     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.autcon.2013.08.006     Document Type: Article

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