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In the context of competitive economy innovation is a key strategic imperative for any organization. Successful technological, marketing, and organizational innovations result in a sustainable competitive advantage and lead to better financial results. As it stands, the organizational innovation is considered to be a vehicle for technological and market development. It is, in turns, driven by the...
Construction supply chain involves a multitude of stake holders, communication between different stake holders play the major role in construction projects. Cost and time over run of projects occur due to delay in communication. Despite of being one of the oldest industries, construction industry is still fragmented. Transferring and updating of information takes place repeatedly between different...
Construction workers' Workplace Deviant Behavior(WDB) has significant impact on project success. However, existing researches on its occurrence mechanism are mainly focused on personal and organizational factors. Psychological ownership, which has been proved to be a critical variable affecting behavior decision making, has not been considered in the occurrence of construction workers' WDB. This paper...
Information, knowledge and skills are in the current digital economy very important. The individual skills of managers in many cases represent a competitive advantage over other companies. Developing managerial and digital competencies represent one of the main conditions for success construction company. Nowadays, there are many ways of developing managerial and digital competencies. Progressive...
The success or failure of a construction project depends largely on the contractor's performance since they are responsible for important activities in the building process. In this way, it is necessary to monitor the performance of the contractors who already working with the organization to control failures during the development of work. Due the complexity and necessity of considering various criteria...
In order to considering the continuous improvement of the degree of economic globalization and the further opening of China's accession to the WTO, construction market production environment will be more complicated. This management of construction enterprises with high demands put forward. We must deeply think and analyze of the current situation of Chinese construction ERP implementation. Learn...
Since the separation of ownership and management in companies, senior managers as the company's core decision-making, their pay is directly linked to company performance. In this paper takes the construction industry as its object of study, selecting total assets net profit margin, return on equity, earnings per share, total assets, asset-liability ratio indicators which can measure the company performance...
the use of Earned Value Management (EVM) is of paramount importance for the successful delivery of construction projects. This paper evaluates the use of EVM in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) construction industry and identifies the key factors for its successful implementation. The success factors are identified through literature review. The paper is based on the assessment of survey responses from...
The continuation and improvement of preventive measures and safety training following electrical accidents are important in reducing the number of accidents in the workplace. A consideration of these preventive measures based on case studies of electrical accidents is required. Consideration may not be sufficient in Japan and other countries because many electrical accidents involve electric shocks...
Contractor selection is a strategic question for the construction industry since the suppliers have an important role in projects performance. Two essential issues in this process are the choice of adequate criteria and methods of supplier's evaluation. Therefore, this paper applies a model for contractor selection in the construction industry. Normally, this selection is considering a group decision...
To address the challenges of high accident rate in construction industry, construction companies tend to capture safety knowledge by learning from success and accidents. Thus, this paper aims to extract critical antecedents affecting organizational learning concerning safety knowledge (OLSK), from both success companies and accidents, and to recommend strategies for improving this learning in construction...
The recycling of materials is increasingly being used by the manufacturing industry. It is an attitude in response the growing charges that society has imposed the producer market. In the construction industry this demand is even more intense due to the large volumes of raw materials consumed for the execution of new buildings, the generation of waste during the construction process and finally the...
Sustainable building construction has become essential in the construction industry with the aim of satisfying the present and future needs of construction stakeholders. Selection and procurement of appropriate materials that satisfies the principles of sustainability is paramount in construction. To this end, the traditional method of materials procurement has been found to be inefficient considering...
Construction industry is expanding by leaps and bounds, so are the sizes of organizations. Experts have focused on understanding and identifying a suitable organization structure that matches the needs of the construction industry. The need for a functional organization structure that is more flexible and can tackle the challenges of competitive industry led to adoption of Matrix Management. Considered...
The construction companies as well as other companies operating in the real estate market are facing a number of challenges - both in internal and external environments. At the same time, the industry presents several options. The objective of the study is to identify the construction sector management problems by exploring the real estate market and construction industry in Latvia, while comparing...
During the economic crisis in 2007 forced the entrepreneurs of the real estate sector and construction sector and industry as a whole cleansed, educated and development, to think about their actions development, to survive and future perspectives of the development.
Construction is a project-based industry, and for each project, companies have to cope with specific challenges. Nevertheless, most of these challenges are similar to each other and share many common elements. Thus, projects are an important source of expert know-how and organizational knowledge, but lessons learned in each one are not systematically incorporated into the design and construction phases...
Measures need to be in place during the construction phase to insure that the final project design adheres to the contract specifications and that the project progress is in line with the contract document and that the resources are managed accordingly. This is where information technology would benefit the project management aspect of construction and provide information integration throughout all...
Poor project governance is the main cause of project failures for complex projects. Historically, formal contracting has been the mainstay of project governance for outsourced projects. However, subsequent studies found that reliance on formal contracting typically results in adversarial relationship between clients and contractors in large construction projects, which exacerbates chances of project...
Building Information Modeling (BIM) is a relatively new technology emerging in the construction industry as it offers many advantages offers over typical construction drawings. However, new technology brings new problems and often uncertainty to an affected industry. Currently, the construction industry is experiencing much uncertainty as to how the BIM process works. There are very few industry standards,...
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