Project management in construction

Business & Money

Walker, Anthony

Management & Leadership

GRANADA

Explaining Guanxi

Guanxi, a system of Chinese business relationships, is often described, but is rarely fully understood. Though it seems intangible, there is no doubt that it has contributed significantly to the success of Chinese entrepreneurs and the places where they work. Translated loosely as ‘personal ties’, this simple explanation belies a complex and nuanced system. Guanxi has often been criticised as nepotism - unfair, inefficient, even corrupt, and generally detrimental to business and economic growth… but if it is that bad, how does it survive?  This insightful book unravels the origins of Guanxi and provides a much-needed explanation of the phenomena. It investigates:  why it was initiated and developed what function it serves how it is maintained  why it is such a dominant phenomenon in Chinese business life   Combining economics, law and culture, this clear and concise book looks to the future of Guanxi based on its history. Drawing on cultural, organizational and economic studies, it takes a multi-disciplinary approach, integrating these various topics into a coherent explanation of Guanxi ensuring that this illuminating book will be equally useful to students of Asian business as to practitioners working within this market.

Explaining Guanxi: The Chinese Business Network

So, Ying Lun

Business Culture

Routledge

Guanxi, a system of Chinese business relationships, is often described, but is rarely fully understood. Though it seems intangible, there is no doubt that it has contributed significantly to the success of Chinese entrepreneurs and the places where they work. Translated loosely as ‘personal ties’, this simple explanation belies a complex and nuanced system. Guanxi has often been criticised as nepotism - unfair, inefficient, even corrupt, and generally detrimental to business and economic growth… but if it is that bad, how does it survive? This insightful book unravels the origins of Guanxi and provides a much-needed explanation of the phenomena. It investigates: <ul>
<li>why it was initiated and developed</li> <li>what function it serves</li> <li>how it is maintained </li> <li>why it is such a dominant phenomenon in Chinese business life </li>
</ul> Combining economics, law and culture, this clear and concise book looks to the future of Guanxi based on its history. Drawing on cultural, organizational and economic studies, it takes a multi-disciplinary approach, integrating these various topics into a coherent explanation of Guanxi ensuring that this illuminating book will be equally useful to students of Asian business as to practitioners working within this market.

A unique reflection by a psychiatrist on his former marriage to a patient with Borderline Personality Disorder, and the disturbing effects on the relationship. 
Borderline Personality Disorder has levels of prevalence, social dysfunction, health care utilization, and chronicity that make its public health significance similar to that of other major psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or major depression, yet it has not received comparable attention. The Courtship Dance of the Borderline is an important statement that will enhance public consciousness about a disorder that is universally recognized and widely discussed within mental health circles. Never before has Borderline Personality Disorder been so intimately explored and detailed from the perspective of a spouse. Now a psychiatrist recounts his relationship with a sufferer of the condition, and the complex issues that arise in the relationship.

The Courtship Dance of the Borderline

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Writers Showcase Pr

This text describes and analyses the land development process and the construction industry in three major countries of Asia Pacific - Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore. It describes the potential for property development in these three countries and examines future growth predictions.

Property and Construction in Asia Pacific

Flanagan, R.

Industries

Wiley/Blackwell

Project management is now regarded as the key to effective design and construction of building and engineering projects. As such, it has become an important component of undergraduate and graduate courses in construction, surveying and civil engineering. This book provides a systems approach to management as applied to construction, and is especially concerned with integrating contractors and decision-making.

Project Management in Construction

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

The management of construction projects continues to be problematic as the complexity of projects themselves and the environments in which they are constructed increasingly challenge project organisations to deliver effective projects within cost and time constraints. Appropriately structured organisations are essential for the delivery of effective projects, the design of which requires an in-depth knowledge of the organisation theory applied to the definition, design and construction of projects. 
This book adopts an essentially systems approach to organisation analysis and design from the initial concept of the project. It enriches this approach by incorporating both other relevant organisation theory and transaction cost economics. It is concerned particularly with the integration of the contributors to the process and the way in which decisions are made. The fourth edition extends considerably the application of transaction cost economics to project management to explain how construction project organisations are formed. It incorporates the partnering phenomenon which is also explained using transaction cost economics. Organisation culture is included as a complement to other organisation theory and in addition contributes to the explanation of partnering. The book has been updated generally in terms of both organisation theory and advances in the project management field itself and the references have been considerably expanded.

The issue of what constitutes a sustainable building is both topical and important. But is a sustainable building synonymous with 'green construction' or does it go beyond with materials to embrace matters such as location, adaptability or the building's relationship with its cultural and social setting?

Building Sustainability in the Balance:: Promoting Stakeholders Dialogue

Sayce, Sarah

McIntosh, Dr Angus

Business

Estates Gazette

Walter Carroll the Children's Composer

Forsyth Brothers Ltd

As with all previous editions of Project Management in Construction, this sixth edition focuses on systems theory as the approach suitable for organizing and managing people skilled in the design and completion of construction projects. It discusses the many competing paradigms and alternative perspectives available, for example in relation to differentiation and integration, as well as the emerging study of temporary organizations and its relevance to construction project management. Whilst encompassing the need to develop further theoretical aspects of construction project organization theory, this edition has also enhanced the application of organization studies to practical issues of construction project management. More emphasis has been placed on the added complexity of construction project management by issues surrounding clients and stakeholders, and the control and empowerment of project participants. Additional focus has been placed on sustainability issues as they impinge on construction project management, on reworked views on supply chain management and on developments in partnering, together with clarification of the shifting terms and definitions relating to construction organization structures and their uses.

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Project management in construction

Explaining Guanxi: The Chinese Business Network

Explaining Guanxi

The Courtship Dance of the Borderline

Property and Construction in Asia Pacific

Project Management in Construction

Project Management in Construction

Building Sustainability in the Balance:: Promoting Stakeholders Dialogue

Walter Carroll the Children's Composer

Project Management in Construction