Challenging the Illusion of the all Powerful Clients' Role in Driving Innovation

Clients Driving Innovation

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 43-48

  Sexton, Martin ^a   Abbott, Carl ^a   Lu, Shu Ling ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Client involvement in balanced co production in innovation continuum; Client role in performance based building innovation; Clients driving innovation and project team drive innovation; Clients' role in innovation process; Co production of innovation within construction domain; Product process innovation continuum; Role of client in performance based building (PBB) innovation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889353238     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444301342.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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