Clients' Roles and Contributions to Innovations in the Construction Industry: When Giants Learn to Dance

Clients Driving Innovation

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 69-77

  Egbu, Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Client's value belief and proposition; Clients in construction industry; Construction organisations and knowledge creation, gathering, storing and exploitation; Dynamics of innovation; Framework for improved understanding of clients roles in innovation; Key roles clients play in innovation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889416651     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444301342.ch8     Document Type: Chapter

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