دانلود کتاب Social network analysis in construction

The objective of the book is to show how social network analysis (SNA) is used to observe, monitor and analyse the complex relationships in major construction project coalitions. Content: Introduction -- Rationale for a network approach to the analysis of project management systems -- 21st century reform and emergent systems in construction -- The construction project as a system of interdependent governance networks -- Social network analysis as a research method -- Network case studies -- Interpreting network diagrams -- Mathematical analysis of network data -- Managing networks -- Summary, conclusions and final thoughts. Abstract: The objective of the book is to make accessible the ways in which social network analysis (SNA) may be used to observe, monitor and analyse systems and relationships in major construction project coalitions. Although this has been an established analytical technique in the US for some time, it is only now being developed in the UK. Read more...