Using grounded theory methodology to explore the information of precursors based on subway construction incidents

Journal of Management in Engineering

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Zhou, Zhipeng ^a   Irizarry, Javier ^b   Li, Qiming ^a   Wu, Weiwei ^a  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Collapse incidents; Construction safety; Grounded theory; Precursor management; Qualitative research and solutions (QSR), NVivo

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CODES (SYMBOLS); CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; RAILROADS;

COLLAPSE INCIDENTS; CONSTRUCTION PRACTICE; CONSTRUCTION SAFETY; CORRESPONDING MEASURES; GROUNDED THEORY; QUALITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SUBWAY CONSTRUCTIONS;

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84923196908     PISSN: 0742597X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)ME.1943-5479.0000226     Document Type: Review

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