From social network to data envelopment analysis: Identifying benchmarks at the site management level

Journal of Construction Engineering and Management

Volumn 140, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Abbasian Hosseini, S Alireza ^a   Hsiang, Simon M ^b   Leming, Michael L ^a   Liu, Min ^a  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Construction trades; Data envelopment analysis; Labor and personnel issues; Social learning; Social network

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; MANAGERS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

BODY OF KNOWLEDGE; CONSTRUCTION TRADES; CONTRACT DOCUMENT; PERSONNEL ISSUES; PROJECT MANAGERS; RELATIVE EFFICIENCY; SITE MANAGEMENT; SOCIAL LEARNING;

BENCHMARKING;

EID: 84904440485     PISSN: 07339364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)CO.1943-7862.0000875     Document Type: Article

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