Emergency systems in construction contracts

Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 189-198

  Loosemore, M ^a   Hughes, K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b Construction Contract Consultants ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contracts; Control; Crisis; Emergency; Flexibility; Procedures

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993044901     PISSN: 09699988     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/eb021074     Document Type: Review

References (40)

1. Allen, R.B. (ed.) (1990) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
2. Ansoff, H.I. (1984) Implanting Strategic Management. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ.
3. Antony, R.N. (1988) The Management Control Function. Harvard Business School, Harvard, MA.
4. Barnes, M. (1989) The role of contracts in management. In Construction Contract Policy — Improved Procedures and Practice, pp. 119–138. Centre for Construction Law and Management, Kings College, London.
5. Barnes, M. (1991) Risk sharing in contracts. In Civil Engineering Project Procedure in the EC: Proceedings of the Conference Organised by the Institution of Civil Engineers, Heathrow, London, 24–25 January 1991, pp. 7–15. Institution of Civil Engineers, London.
6. Bennett, J. (1991) International Construction Project Management — General Theory and Practice. Butterworth-Heineman, Oxford.
7. Berelson, B. (1971) Content Analysis in Communication Research. Hafner Publishing Company, New York, NY.
8. Berg, B.L. (1989) Qualitative Research Methods for the Social Sciences. Allyn and Bacon, Needham Heights, MA.
9. Bernard, H.R., Killworth, P.D. & Sailer, L. (1982) Informant accuracy in social network data V an experimental attempt to predict actual communication from recall data. Social Science Research, 11, 30–66.
10. Booth, S.A. (1993) Crisis Management Strategy — Competition and Change in Modern Enterprises. Routledge, London.
11. Borgatti, S.P., Everett, M.G. & Freeman, L.C. (1992) UCINET IV Version 1.00. Analytic Technologies, Columbia, SC.
12. Brecher, M. (1977) Toward a theory of international crisis behaviour — a preliminary report. International Studies Quarterly, 21 (1), 39–74.
13. Broome, J.C. (1996) A comparison of the clarity of traditional construction contracts and of the New Engineering Contract. Paper presented at the ARCOM Research Workshop, University of Reading, Reading, January 1996.
14. Crichton, C. (1966) Interdependence and Uncertainty—A Study of the Building Industry. Tavistock Publications, London.
15. Crozier, M. (1964) The Bureaucratic Phenomenon. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL.
16. Engineering and Construction Contract (1995) The Engineering and Construction Contract. Thomas Telford, London.
17. Flanagan, R. & Norman, G. (1993) Risk Management and Construction. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford.
18. Gibb, J.R. (1984) Defensive communication. In Organisational Psychology — Readings on Human Behaviour in Organisations (eds D. A. Kolb, I. M. Rubin & M. McIntyre), pp. 279–284. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ.
19. Hermann, C.F. (1963) Some consequences of crisis which limit the viability of organisations. Administrative Science Quarterly, 8 (25), 61–82.
20. Hinze, J. (1993) Construction Contracts. McGraw-Hill Inc., New York, NY.
21. Janowitz, M. (1959) Sociology and the Military Establishment. 76, New York, NY.
22. JCT (1980) JCT Standard Form of Building Contract, 1980 edn: Local Authority with Quantities. RIBA Publications, London.
23. Loosemore, M. (1994) Dealing with unexpected problems — Do contracts help? A comparison of the NEC and JCT 80 forms. Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, 1 (2), 115–139.
24. Loosemore, M. (1996) Crisis management in building projects — a longitudinal investigation of communication and behaviour patterns within a grounded theory framework. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Reading, Reading.
25. Mintzberg, H. (1976) Planning on the left side and managing on the right side. Harvard Business Review, 54 (2), 49–58.
26. Murdoch, J. & Hughes, W. (1992) Construction Contracts — Law and Management. E. & F. N. Spon, London.
27. National Economic Development Council (1983) Faster Building for Industry. HMSO, London.
28. Peters, T. (1989) Thriving on Chaos — Handbook of Management Revolution. Pan Books, London.
29. Richardson, B. (1996) Modern management's role in the demise of sustainable society. Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, 4 (1), 20–31.
30. Roethlisberger, F.J. & Dickson, W.J. (1939) Management and the Worker. Harvard University Press, Harvard, MA.
31. Sagan, S.D. (1991) Rules of engagement. In Avoiding War — Problems of Crisis Management (ed. A. L. George), pp. 443–470. Westview Press, San Fransisco, CA.
32. Schein, E.H. (1980) Organisational Psychology, 3rd edn. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ.
33. Shrivastava, P. (1994) The evolution of crisis research. Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, 2 (1), 10–20.
34. Simon, H.A. (1968) Administrative Behaviour, 2nd edn. The Free Press, New York, NY.
35. Skitmore, R.M., Stradling, S.G. & Tuohy, A.P. (1989) Project management under uncertainty. Construction Management and Economics, 7, 103–113.
36. Smith, H.W. (1975) Strategies of Social Research. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ.
37. Toffler, A. (1970) Future Shock — A Study of Mass Bewilderment in the Face of Accelerating Change. The Bodley Head, London.
38. Uff, J. (1995) Contract documents and the division of risk. In Risk Management and Procurement in Construction (eds J. Uff & A. M. Odams), pp. 49–69. Centre for Construction Law and Management, London.
39. Uff, J. & Capper, P. (1989) Review and conference conclusion. In Construction Contract Policy — Improved Procedures and Practice (eds J. Uff & P. Capper). Centre for Construction Law and Management, Kings College, London.
40. Williams, H.B. (1957) Some functions of communication. Human Organisation, 16, 15–19.