Construction professionals' perception of critical success factors for large-scale construction projects

Construction Innovation

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 149-167

  Toor, Shamas ur Rehman ^a   Ogunlana, Stephen O ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Construction industry; Critical success factors; Thailand

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992948135     PISSN: 14714175     EISSN: 14770857     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14714170910950803     Document Type: Article

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