Understanding construction alliances [electronic resource] their rationale and design

Ingirige, Bingunath

Understanding construction alliances their rationale and design [electronic resource] - London RICS 2007 - RICS Research Paper Series 7(4) June 2007 .

Examines the rationale for alliance development in the construction sector. Compares and contrasts research focusing on alliances in the construction and property literature with general alliance literature and discusses two construction alliance case studies. Concludes that strategic partnering alliances, while having long term goals, also need to prove their short term success whereas project based partnering schemes are orientated towards achieving short term results targeting a single project.

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