The pluralistic facets of culture and its impact on construction

Property Management

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 335-351

  Barthorpe, Stephen ^a   Duncan, Rosanna ^a   Miller, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLAMORGAN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Construction industry; Corporate culture; Diversity; Sociology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986177830     PISSN: 02637472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02637470010360632     Document Type: Review

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