Stakeholders' Attributes, behaviors, and decision-making strategies in construction projects: Importance and correlations in practice

Project Management Journal

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 74-90

  Yang, Rebecca J ^a   Wang, Yaowu ^b   Jin, Xiao Hua ^c  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

construction projects; decision making strategies; stakeholder attributes; stakeholder behaviors

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901825514     PISSN: 87569728     EISSN: 19389507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pmj.21412     Document Type: Article

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