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Modeling the Design Team as a Temporary Management Structure: Reality versus Theory

Construction Economics and Building

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Title Modeling the Design Team as a Temporary Management Structure: Reality versus Theory
 
Creator Michell, Kathy
Bowen, Paul
Cattell, Keith
 
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Description The focus of the cost management literature is almost exclusively on technical issues, with scant attention to its social, political and organisational dimensions. In this paper the authors document research examining the design team as a temporary management structure, with emphasis on the efficacy of the cost management system as a vehicle for attaining client objectives with respect to time, cost and quality. Soft systems methodology is used to explore the perceptions of stakeholders to the cost management system, thus developing conceptual models of the theory and practice of cost management. Significant differences were found to exist between the perceptions of individual stakeholders concerning design team participants, participants’ roles, and the very purpose of the cost management system. Recommendations are made for structural, attitudinal and procedural changes to the cost management system in order to facilitate its effective functioning in the achievement of the client’s needs and objectives.
 
Publisher UTS ePRESS
 
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Date 2012-11-22
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Identifier http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/AJCEB/article/view/2974
10.5130/AJCEB.v7i1.2974
 
Source Construction Economics and Building; Vol 7, No 1 (2007): AJCEB; 19-28
2204-9029
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/AJCEB/article/view/2974/3147
 
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Rights Copyright (c) 2007 Kathy Michell, Paul Bowen, Keith Cattell
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