Construction stakeholder management

Edited by Ezekiel Chinyio, Paul Olomolaiye

This-Construction stakeholder management is an important book.

At last the issue of stakeholder management has been written about in a way which relieves the term of the burden of the facile sloganeering so beloved of those charged with directing the construction industry for the last 10 years.

At one time, stakeholder management was a term used to indicate that a wider set of interests needed to be satisfied; certainly beyond the narrow and dominant interests of the clients that have so frequently trumped those of contractors, sub-contractors, suppliers and construction workers.

Construction stakeholder management brings a fresh perspective.

It does so because it has recruited a cast of authors, many of whom are drawn neither directly from the ranks of construction industry academics nor from construction consultants.

As such, a fresh eye has been cast over the subject and authors from different nationalities offer refreshing perspectives.

This enables a comprehensive coverage to be given to the pedagogy of the subject; Theory and Practice: Cases and Codifi cation: Formal and Informal Processes: Strategic Tactical and Operational Concerns: Research and Speculation.

All are given space in this book-Construction stakeholder management which enables the editors to launch a cri de coeur to put stakeholder management at the heart of the project process and embedded in the procurement procedures used within the construction industry.