Construction Quality and the Economy (Record no. 75520)
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| fixed length control field | 03791nam a22005535i 4500 |
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| control field | 978-981-13-5847-0 |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20220801213724.0 |
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| fixed length control field | 190108s2019 si | s |||| 0|eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9789811358470 |
| -- | 978-981-13-5847-0 |
| 082 04 - CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Call Number | 690.06 |
| 100 1# - AUTHOR NAME | |
| Author | Sui Pheng, Low. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Construction Quality and the Economy |
| Sub Title | A Study at the Firm Level / |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 1st ed. 2019. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | XVI, 268 p. 59 illus., 35 illus. in color. |
| 490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Management in the Built Environment, |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Remark 2 | Introduction -- The Economy and the Construction Industry -- Government's Role in a High Quality Built Environment -- Firm Characteristics and Strategies -- Firm's Trade-Off Decisions and Theory of Firm Behavior -- The Conceptual Framework -- Research Design and Methodology -- Survey Results Analysis and Discussion -- Case Study Results Analysis and Discussion -- Experts Interviews on Triangulated and Non-Triangulated Findings -- Conclusions. . |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | This book discusses the relationship between construction quality and the state of the Singapore national economy, and describes how construction quality is affected as contracting firms strategically manage issues relating to profitability and survivability during economic boom and bust cycles. Adopting a three-pronged approach to explain the key issues, the book first explains the effect of the state of the Singapore national economy (boom or bust) on the construction quality delivered by contracting firms. Secondly, it explains how contracting firms respond to the performance of the national economy through their dynamic bidding strategies, leading to significant quality trade-offs in some instances, especially when there is imprecise market information. Thirdly, it recommends various strategic measures that key stakeholders and government policy-makers can take to circumvent the quality trade-off in the construction industry when faced with dynamic fluctuations in the performance of the national economy. Although the book focuses on Singapore, it appeals to a global audience since countries worldwide (and their respective building-related stakeholders) face the same issues in terms of the time–cost–quality trade-off decision-making process involving the entire supply chain. |
| 700 1# - AUTHOR 2 | |
| Author 2 | Shing Hou, Lau. |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-5847-0 |
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| Koha item type | eBooks |
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| -- | Singapore : |
| -- | Springer Nature Singapore : |
| -- | Imprint: Springer, |
| -- | 2019. |
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| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
| -- | Construction industry—Management. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
| -- | Project management. |
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| -- | Industrial Management. |
| 650 14 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
| -- | Construction Management. |
| 650 24 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
| -- | Project Management. |
| 650 24 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
| -- | Industrial Management. |
| 830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE | |
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