Advances in Civil Engineering
Volume 2018, Article ID 3534209, 9 pages
https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/3534209
Research Article
Effect of Organizational Cultural Differences and Mutual Trust on Contract Management of Nonequity Construction Project Alliances
1School of Construction Management and Real Estate, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400045, China
2School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW 2751, Australia
3Chongqing Public Resources Trading Center, Chongqing 40014, China
Correspondence should be addressed to Yanling Zhao; moc.621@lyhzuqc
Received 7 December 2017; Accepted 23 January 2018; Published 4 March 2018
Academic Editor: Michael Yam
Copyright © 2018 Yanling Zhao et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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