1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910146125003321

Titolo

Clients driving innovation [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Peter Brandon, Shu-Ling Lu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, West Sussex ; ; [Malden] MA, : Wiley-Blackwell

[Salford], : Thinklab

[Rotterdam, The Netherlands], : CIB, 2008

ISBN

1-282-03447-2

9786612034473

1-4443-0134-9

1-4443-0135-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (295 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BrandonP. S (Peter S.)

LuShu-Ling

Disciplina

690.068/8

690.0688

Soggetti

Building - Technological innovations

Construction industry - Customer services

Customer relations

Consumer satisfaction

Production planning

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Note on editors; List of contributors; Note on CIB; Note on Think Lab; Acknowledgements; Preface; PART 1 THE CONTEXT FOR INNOVATION; 1 A global agenda for revaluing construction: the client's role; 2 Revaluing construction: implications for the construction process; 3 Is the client really part of the team? A contemporary policy perspective on Latham/Egan; 4 Enabling clients to be professional; 5 Challenging the illusion of the all powerful clients' role in driving innovation; 6 Reifying the client in construction management research? Alternative perspectives on a complex construct

7 A proposed taxonomy for construction clients8 Clients' roles and contributions to innovations in the construction industry: when giants



learn to dance; 9 Setting the game plan: the role of clients in construction innovation and diffusion; 10 Clients as innovation drivers in large engineering projects; 11 Knowing differently, innovating together? Exploring the dynamics of knowledge creation across boundaries in clients' design teams; 12 The role of the client in the innovation processes of small construction professional service firms; 13 Client-oriented contractor innovation

14 Driving innovation in construction: a conceptual model of client leadership behaviour15 Critical actions by clients for effective development and implementation of construction innovations; PART 2 THE INNOVATION PROCESS; 16 Overcoming resistance to innovation: the integration champion in construction; 17 Client-driven innovation through a requirements-oriented project process; 18 Knowledge management supports clients driving innovation: two case studies; 19 Implementing innovations in infrastructures for the built environment: the role of project developers, customers and users

PART 3 MOVING IDEAS INTO PRACTICE20 Client driven performance improvement strategies for the construction industry: development and implementation challenges; 21 Public policy, clients and the construction industry; 22 Value for money versus complexity: a battle of giants in the public sector?; 23 The role of the professional client in leading change: a case study of Stanhope plc; 24 Customer focus: time, the enemy of desire - a contractor developer perspective; 25 The role of the client in building site innovations

26 A complex systems approach to customer co-innovation: a financial services case studyIndex

Sommario/riassunto

In recent years the construction industry has been criticised for lack of successful innovation compared to other major industries. The question of why the industry has not been seen to be innovative has created concern among many involved with construction and property. The driving concern is where the motivation for this innovation should come from. Although construction clients have made an impact in this area, the industry itself seems divided as to whether, when and where clients should drive the innovation process.Clients Driving Innovation brings together an international group



2.

Record Nr.

UNISA990001573330203316

Autore

FÉNELON, Francois : de Salignac de La Mothe

Titolo

Les aventures de Telemaque / François de Salignac de La Mothe Fenelon ; notice et notes par A. Cherel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Paris, : Hatier, 1946

Descrizione fisica

2 v. ; 18 cm.

Collana

Les classiques pour tous ; 174-175

Collocazione

VI.4.A. 1242/1(II F D1 339 1)

VI.4.A. 1242/2(II F D1 339 2)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

<vol. 1.> : 128 p. - <vol. 2.> : 128 p.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910961413003321

Autore

Yagi Kiichirō <1947-, >

Titolo

Austrian and German economic thought : from subjectivism to social evolution / / Kiichiro Yagi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-283-44128-4

9786613441287

0-203-83076-8

1-136-82461-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (202 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in the history of economics

Disciplina

330.15/70943

Soggetti

Austrian school of economics

Evolutionary economics

Economists - Austria

Economists - Germany

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

General introduction -- Portrait of an Austrian liberal : Max Menger's liberal position -- Carl Menger as journalist and tutor of Crown Prince -- Carl Menger's Grundsätze in the making -- Carl Menger and historicism in German economics -- Anonymous history in Austrian economic thought -- Alternative equilibrium vision in Austrian economics -- Karl Knies, Max Weber, and Austrians : a Heidelberg connection -- Determinateness and indeterminateness in Schumpeter's economic sociology : the origin of social evolution -- Evolutionist turn of the Marx-Weber problem.

Sommario/riassunto

This book intends to renovate the view of social sciences in the German-speaking world. It explores the intellectual tension in the social science in Austria and Germany in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. It deals with how the emergence of the new school (Austrian School) changed the focus of social science in the German speaking world, and how it prepared the introduction of an evolutionary perspective in economics, politics, and sociology. Based on (mostly hitherto unknown) primary evidence, this development is lively described in a series of encounters and decisions by