The contribution of the client representative to the creation and maintenance of good project inter-team relationships

Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 51-57

  Walker, Derek H t ^a,b  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLAMORGAN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Client representative characteristics; Construction time performance; Project team coalition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993087690     PISSN: 09699988     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/eb021060     Document Type: Review

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