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Strategic Procurement in Construction
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This book has been written in order to contribute to the debate
about best practice in construction procurement. At the outset it
should be made plain that the authors do not subscribe to the view
that there is any such thing as best practice. The main argument in
this book is that there can never be a best practice, only better
practice, in construction procurement.
The reason for arriving at this conclusion is straightforward. If
there was a best practice in the effective management and delivery
of construction related projects, then, it would have been
discovered many centuries ago, and it would have been successfully
copied and replicated by many individuals and companies since
then. The idea of a best practice is, therefore, flawed because it
assumes that there is an end state of management behaviour that is
always likely to be the appropriate way to achieve success under all
circumstances. This cannot be true because technological and
competitive circumstances do not remain the same.
Andrew Cox and Mike Townsend - Personal Name
978-07277-2599-8
NONE
Management
English
1998
1-343
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