An empirical test of causal relationships of factors affecting ICT adoption for building project management: An Indian SME case study

Construction Innovation

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 164-180

  Ahuja, Vanita ^a   Yang, Jay ^b   Skitmore, Martin ^b   Shankar, Ravi ^c  

^a Queensland University of Technology ^*  (India)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Communication technologies; India; Project management; Small to medium sized enterprises

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986064606     PISSN: 14714175     EISSN: 14770857     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14714171011037174     Document Type: Article

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