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The constructivist model of 'soft' value management (VM) is contrasted with the VM discourse appropriated by cost consultants who operate from within UK quantity surveying (QS) practices. The enactment of VM by cost consultants is shaped by the institutional context within which they operate and...
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In response to the emergence of scandals involving many high-profile companies during the 1990s, corporate governance is considered as an area requiring immediate reform. The government of the United Kingdom has conducted a series of reviews on corporate governance and incorporated the...
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observation, the question arises of how buildability can be benchmarked and which aspects of project performance can be improved … for enhancing buildability, which would in turn raise project performance. Three experienced practitioners have been …
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an analytical lens to identify different effects of regulatory, normative and cultural institutions on project … processes through which political cultures and industrial structures determined the decisions for project arrangements …. Longitudinal archival methods combined with exploratory case studies were employed to examine project decisions by analysing …
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Working relationships are important in effecting project performance and cooperation is believed to be a behavioural …
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survey of contractors, project owners' architects, quantity surveyors and engineers, case studies on actual claims situations …
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functions may have a significant impact on project cost or schedule performance. The results also indicate that information and … work function level and overall project cost and schedule success. The links between technology utilization and project … success are explored in detail. Identification of project performance-leveraging work functions is employed as a way to gain …
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. The factors that affect innovation on a project were identified, as well as how these factors can be used to measure the … level of innovation on a project, and the practices and processes that encourage and facilitate innovative changes. Case … owner/client and firm upper management, workforce and project team integration and diversity. Applying the practices …
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rethink of contemporary project management (PM). However, current critical perspectives have failed to diagnose the practical …
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-cultural communication (CCC) on management systems in this context. The key problems of CCC and their impact for construction project … experiences concerning the impact of human and cultural influences on project management and CCC evaluation processes in Samoa …Communication problems have emerged as one of the most significant contemporary challenges facing construction project …
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