The technocratic totalitarianism of construction process improvement: A critical perspective

Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 376-386

  Green, S D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Business process re engineering; Construction management research; Critical theory; Lean construction; Postmodernism; Rhetoric

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992933843     PISSN: 09699988     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/eb021090     Document Type: Review

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