Editorial: Communities and champions of practice: Catalysts for learning and knowing

Construction Innovation

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 365-371

  Love, Peter E d ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Best practice; Construction industry; Learning; Project planning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992954221     PISSN: 14714175     EISSN: 14770857     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14714170910995912     Document Type: Article

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