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The Construction Industry and its Participants

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Contractor-Led Procurement

Part of the book series: Baubetriebswirtschaftslehre und Infrastrukturmanagement ((BAUBWL))

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All organisations are faced by an environment that includes everything considered to be outside of a company that either affects it directly or indirectly. While those aspects that define the environment can be described as simple and static or complex and dynamic, in practice the situation encountered is one that ranges from low to high levels of complexity and dynamism1.

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Winter, C. (2003). The Construction Industry and its Participants. In: Contractor-Led Procurement. Baubetriebswirtschaftslehre und Infrastrukturmanagement. Deutscher Universitätsverlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-81614-6_2

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