Learning to deliver a mega-project: The case of Heathrow Terminal

Procuring Complex Performance: Studies of Innovation in Product-Service Management

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 174-195

  Brady, Tim ^a   Davies, Andrew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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