E-business in construction / edited by Chimay J. Anumba and Kirti Ruikar ; foreword by Ronald McCaffer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Anumba, C. J. (Chimay J.)

Ruikar, Kirti.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Construction industry.

Electronic commerce.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (301 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, UK ; Ames, Iowa : Wiley-Blackwell, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

With a number of disparate, often geographically distributed, organisations involved in the delivery of construction projects, there has been considerable interest in e-business tools within the construction industry. These tools open up a range of possibilities for the industry to rethink existing processes and working methods, so their use is increasingly common. Nevertheless, there has been little definitive guidance for practitioners, researchers and students on the major issues in electronic business from a construction perspective.By bringing together 16 contributions from resear

Contents:

Introduction / Chimay J. Anumba and Kirti Ruikar

Fundamentals of e-business / Kirti Ruikar and Chimay J. Anumba

E-business : the construction context / Kirti Ruikar, Chimay J. Anumba and Patricia Carrillo

Organisational readiness for e-business / Kirti Ruikar, Chimay J. Anumba and Patricia Carrillo

Integrated multi-disciplinary e-business infrastructure framework / Ihab A. Ismail and Vineet R. Kamat

The role of extranets in construction e-business / Paul Wilkinson

Agent-based systems : the competitive advantage for AEC-specific e-business / Esther A. Obonyo and Chimay J. Anumba

The role of e-hubs in e-commerce / Zhaomin Ren, Chimay J. Anumba and Tarek M. Hassan

Web services and aecXML-based e-business system for construction products procurement / Stephen C. W. Kong, Heng Li and Chimay J. Anumba

Using next generation web technologies in construction e-business / Darshan Ruikar, Chimay J. Anumba and Alistair Duke

Trust in e-commerce / Zhaomin Ren and Tarek M. Hassan

Legal issues in construction e-business / Ihab A. Ismail and Vineet R. Kamat

Knowledge management for improved construction e-business performance / Charles O. Egbu

E-commerce in construction : industrial case study / Tim C. Cole

Assessment of e-business implementation in the US construction industry / Raymond R. A. Issa, Ian Flood and Bryce Treffinger

Concluding notes / Chimay J. Anumba and Kirti Ruikar.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612034602

9781282034600

128203460X

9781444302462

1444302469

9781444302479

1444302477

OCLC:

437097463