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| Author: | Barrett, P. Sexton, M. |
| Title: | Innovation in small, project-based construction firms |
| Journal: | British Journal of Management
2006 : DEC, VOL. 17:4, p. 331-346 |
| Index terms: | construction industry innovation projects small business |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This paper presents a consensus model of the organizational factors that affect innovation in small, project-based firms. The authors suggest that typically the innovations of small, project-based firms are closely tied to their operational activities and are pushed forward by owners who utilise very scarce resources to make progress in the interstices of normal business. This results to an emphasis on taking up established technologies through "learning on the job". The firms aim to get past a survival mode of operating and to achieve stability by satisfying clients. |
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