Murray, M D and Langford, D A (1998) Construction procurement systems: A linkage with project organizational models. In: Hughes, W (ed.) Proceedings of 14th Annual ARCOM Conference, 9-11 September 1998, Reading, UK.
Abstract
This paper constitutes a literature review undertaken at the start of a two and a half year EPSRC funded research project. As such, its purpose is to present the details of the 're-search’concerning construction procurement and project organizational design. The paper shows that the 'post -Latham’construction industry provides several new developments (client power, partnering, concurrent engineering etc) which are altering the construction project process, and therefore prove worthy vehicles for investigation into project organizational structures.
| Item Type: | Conference Paper (Paper) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | communication; decision making; organizational structures; procurement systems |
| Index terms: | Latham, organizational design, organizational structure, partnering, linkage, literature review, procurement system, project organizational structure, investigation, construction procurement, construction project, concurrent engineering, decision-making, construction industry |
| Subjects: | production management, engineering methods, industry analysis, industry policy reports, organizational analysis, partnership management, decision analysis, sociology, data collection methods, business, data analysis and analytics, contractual arrangements |
| Topics: | Business Strategy, Research Practice, Project Management, Engineering Principles, Risk Management, Stakeholder Management, Procurement, Governance, Organizational Design |
| Descriptive scope: | 4 PCTA |
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