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Arkani, S (1999) Contractual interfaces: the implications of building production process management and interorganisational relations for productivity in building project coalitions, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Business School, University of Greenwich.
Carbonari, G (2018) Sustainable facilities management with the support of building information modelling, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Department of Built Environment, University of Greenwich.
Connaughton, J N (1993) Making and implementing industrial building investment decisions, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Greenwich.
- Type: Thesis
- Keywords: social science, business administration, capital investment, decision making, investment, UK
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- URL: http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/6136/
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This thesis aims to increase current understanding of the ways in which large firms make and implement industrial building investment decisions. The study reported involved an investigation, from the corporate perspective, of the decision and implementation stages of capital investment projects in two large UK firms. The orientation of the study is towards a consideration of investment decision making and implementation as a problem for management involving a process of resource allocation occurring over time and throughout the corporate organisation. Drawing on research in the business administration area of social science, the process model of resource allocation by Bower (1970) is used as a conceptual framework and to suggest propositions for study which direct attention at key features of the process. By viewing corporate capital investment decision making and implementation within this framework - and as part of an in-depth, case-based, exploratory research strategy - rather than in terms of its financial or economic consequences, the study reaches an understanding of the ways in which both firms studied actually made and implemented their capital investment decisions. The analysis utilised the study propositions to explore the resource allocation process and yields important observations on the role of the construction industry in the investment decision process and of the role of the corporate client in the construction process. The central finding is that the implementation of corporate capital investment, seen from the firm's perspective, is more a continuation of the process of capital investment than an end result of it. The study suggests that the construction industry participates rather more in the investment decision process, and the corporate client participates rather more in the construction process, than is generally recognised in the literatures on corporate capital investment and construction management.
Cooper, J (2015) Sustainable building maintenance within social housing, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Greenwich.
Herrero, J J (2003) Columbus: a solution using metadata for integrating document management, project hosting and document control in the construction industry, Unpublished PhD Thesis, School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences, University of Greenwich.
Jiang, H (2012) The development of a scenario independent method for evaluating the evacuation complexity of a building, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Greenwich.
Keath, M (1983) The development of school construction systems in Hertfordshire 1946-64, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Greenwich.
Khan, L R (2014) Reliability estimation and risk-cost optimisation of underground pipelines, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Greenwich.
Siddiqui, A A (2019) An investigation into data sharing between building information modelling and fire safety engineering, with potential applications to smart buildings, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Greenwich.
Simpson, Y (2014) The potential impact of the HE Educational White Paper 2011 on higher education and professional construction education: professional quantity surveying education in England, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Department of Education & Community Studies, University of Greenwich.
Thompson, O (2020) Towards a comprehensive understanding of human behaviour in dwelling fires, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Greenwich.
Umeokafor, N I (2017) Realities of construction health and safety regulation in Nigeria, Unpublished PhD Thesis, School of Design, University of Greenwich.
Zhang, J (2018) Building a sustainability assessment model for highway infrastructure projects in Yunnan, China, Unpublished PhD Thesis, School of Architecture, Design & Construction, University of Greenwich.