Wongsuwan, K; (2008) Impact of organisational structure on building design execution periods. Doctoral thesis , UCL (University College London).

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This research examines the impacts of organisational structure on design execution period, in the context of public sector building design organisations in Thailand, in order to improve design productivity of the organisations. During the course of the study, a review of existing literatures analyses a number of factors influencing the design execution time, including the organisational structure. Three aspects of organisational structure were found to have impacts on the design period, these are departmentalisation, centralisation (or decentralisation), and formalisation. Primary research was employed to obtain the informative data from two representative organisations through collecting secondary data from the organisation records as well as conducting questionnaires and interviews with design-related staffs. It was found that such aspects of organisational structure can have both positive and negative effects on the design execution period and applying matrix structure to the project teams improves the execution time.

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