This book aims to provide knowledge on how infrastructure is planned and built in a typical developing country, and what key variables are there in the system limiting the efficient use of public investments in infrastructure. The book begins with a comprehensive literature review on construction and economic development, and trade and economic development. The focus of the book is on the case of Vietnam, with lessons drawn for other developing economies. The book employs the mixed use of data to provide a stronger basis for analysis and interpretation of related government policies. Based on...
This book aims to provide knowledge on how infrastructure is planned and built in a typical developing country, and what key variables are there in th...
This book explores China's global competitiveness in the building of infrastructures with a particular interest in the resource-rich African countries. The book begins with a comprehensive literature review on total quality management (TQM) and national culture, followed by reviews of the construction industries in China and Nigeria. This provides better understanding of the linkages between TQM, based on the International Organization for Standardization's ISO 9000 quality management systems (QMS), and national culture, based on Emeritus Professor Geert Hofstede's national cultural...
This book explores China's global competitiveness in the building of infrastructures with a particular interest in the resource-rich African countries...
This book examines the Facilities Management (FM) of hospitals and healthcare facilities, which are among the most complex, costly and challenging kind of buildings to manage. It presents and evaluates the FM service quality standards in Singapore s hospitals from the patient s perspective, and provides recommendations on how to successfully improve FM service quality and achieve higher patient satisfaction. The book also features valuable supplementary materials, including a checklist of 32 key factors for successful facilities management and another checklist of 24 service attributes for...
This book examines the Facilities Management (FM) of hospitals and healthcare facilities, which are among the most complex, costly and challenging ...
This book aims to provide knowledge on how infrastructure is planned and built in a typical developing country, and what key variables are there in the system limiting the efficient use of public investments in infrastructure.
This book aims to provide knowledge on how infrastructure is planned and built in a typical developing country, and what key variables are there in th...
This book lays out a complexity-informed framework for effective crisis response communications by construction companies dealing with natural disasters impacting their projects. It deploys case studies from firms who faced the huge 2008 Sichuan earthquake.
This book lays out a complexity-informed framework for effective crisis response communications by construction companies dealing with natural disaste...
The book begins with a comprehensive literature review on total quality management (TQM) and national culture, followed by reviews of the construction industries in China and Nigeria.
The book begins with a comprehensive literature review on total quality management (TQM) and national culture, followed by reviews of the construction...
This book provides an understanding of Business Continuity Management (BCM) implementation for local/international construction operations, with a primary focus on Indonesian construction firms as an illustrative example.
This book provides an understanding of Business Continuity Management (BCM) implementation for local/international construction operations, with a pri...
