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Construction Management and Economics Volume 37, 2019 - Issue 2
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Understanding improvisation in construction through antecedents, behaviours and consequences

Farook R. HamzehDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, American University of Beirut, Beirut, LebanonCorrespondence[email protected]
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Farah FaekDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, American University of Beirut, Beirut, LebanonView further author information
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Hasnaa AlHusseinDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, American University of Beirut, Beirut, LebanonView further author information
Pages 61-71 | Received 19 Oct 2017, Accepted 29 Jun 2018, Published online: 15 Oct 2018

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Christopher Görsch, Olli Seppänen, Antti Peltokorpi & Rita Lavikka. (2024) Task planning and control in construction: revealing workers as early and late planners. Construction Management and Economics 42:5, pages 431-450.
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Alya J. Abuseem, Udechukwu Ojiako & Fikri T. Dweiri. (2023) Overcoming ignorance and the unknown in UAE projects: the role of improvisation. International Journal of System Assurance Engineering and Management 15:3, pages 871-897.
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Hasnaa Alhussein, Lynn Shehab & Farook Hamzeh. (2022) Improvisation in Construction Planning: An Agent-Based Simulation Approach. Buildings 12:10, pages 1608.
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Kaiwen JiangYun LeXian ZhengXinyue Zhang. (2022) Understanding Organizational Improvisation in Construction Megaprojects. Understanding Organizational Improvisation in Construction Megaprojects.
Phuong NguyenAminah Robinson FayekFarook Hamzeh. (2022) A Sensor-Based Empirical Framework to Measure Construction Labor Productivity. A Sensor-Based Empirical Framework to Measure Construction Labor Productivity.

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