Castles in the Air?

The management of the construction firm

空中楼阁：工程项目公司的管理

讲座时间：5月13日（周一）10：00-12：00

讲座地点：25楼A座3层C教室

主讲人：Professor Hedley Smyth

主讲人介绍：

Hedley Smythis Professor of Project Enterprises at The Bartlett School of Construction and Project Management, UCL. He has worked in both industry and academe. He has been a full-time staff member at UCL since 2001 and has led teaching and research in the School on project-based enterprises. He has also worked extensively with industry. His research interests are organizational behaviour, relationship management, value, and decision-making in project-based firms, especially in main construction contractors. He has published widely in academic journals, written book chapters, and sole authored books.

讲座内容:

Who is next? The current business model for main contracting firms is failing, demonstrated through the collapse of Carillion, and Interserve going into administration.

There have been serial reports on the construction industry over the decades with the aim of improving operatives, yet the management of the firm as a major constraint to improvement has been overlooked.

This inaugural lecture will focus on the modern history of main contracting firms in construction and how this has led to the failed business model employed today. Itis a call to arms, as Prof Smyth asks, how should management respond? What needs to be done? And who is next?

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