Introduction: Managing Collaborative Relationships and the Management of Projects

Collaborative Relationships in Construction: Developing Frameworks and Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-23

  Smyth, Hedley ^a   Pryke, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Collaborative relationships and management of projects; Corporate programme project client interfaces within network of social relationships; Critical realist causality model for management of projects within relationship approach; Framework agreement projects providing continuity of relationships; Front end strategies and tactics and project execution phases; Functional management approach; Information processing approach; Relationship approach; Scoping frameworks and networks using relationship approach; Traditional project management approach

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889427710     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444301069.ch     Document Type: Editorial

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