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Benjaoran, V, Dawood, N and Hobbs, B (2005) Flowshop scheduling model for bespoke precast concrete production planning. Construction Management and Economics, 23(01), 93-105.
Haupt, T C, Munshi, M and Smallwood, J (2005) HIV and AIDS in South African construction: is age nothing but a number?. Construction Management and Economics, 23(01), 107-19.
Kirkham, R J (2005) Re-engineering the whole life cycle costing process. Construction Management and Economics, 23(01), 9-14.
Larsen, G D and Ballal, T M A (2005) The diffusion of innovations within a UKCI context: an explanatory framework. Construction Management and Economics, 23(01), 81-91.
Leung, M-Y, Ng, T S, Skitmore, M and Cheung, S-O (2005) Critical stressors influencing construction estimators in Hong Kong. Construction Management and Economics, 23(01), 33-44.
Mehta, R and Bridwell, L (2005) Innovative construction technology for affordable mass housing in Tanzania, East Africa. Construction Management and Economics, 23(01), 69-79.
Phua, F T T (2005) Determining the relationship between fee structure and project performance between firms: an empirical study based on institutional and task environment perspectives. Construction Management and Economics, 23(01), 45-56.
- Type: Journal Article
- Keywords: institutional factors; task environment factors; fee; project performance; hierarchical regression modelling
- ISBN/ISSN: 0144-6193
- URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/0144619042000287796
- Abstract:
Construction firms, under the influence of different dynamic institutional and task environment forces, are likely to have differing perceptions about the determinants of project performance. To test this proposition, this study uses institutional and task environment frameworks to investigate specifically the relationship between fee structure and project performance across different construction firms. Despite anecdotal evidence suggesting that such a relationship exists, empirical results based on data collected from 398 construction firms in Hong Kong did not support this assertion. However, by further modelling the differences across firms, the results indicate that firms on the whole regard other task environment factors as more important to project performance compared to institutional factors. Based on follow-up interviews, suggestions as to why this may be the case point to the fact that firms feel they can exercise greater business control on the capitalization, enhancement, and management of various task environment resources than they can on institutional ones. The paper concludes by highlighting the need for researchers to be cognizant of the benefits of integrating both task environment and institutional factors and understand how they affect project performance.
Roy, R, Low, M and Waller, J (2005) Documentation, standardization and improvement of the construction process in house building. Construction Management and Economics, 23(01), 57-67.
Tang, S L, Ying, K C, Anson, M and Lu, M (2005) RMCSIM: A simulation model of a ready-mixed concrete plant serving multiple sites using multiple truckmixers. Construction Management and Economics, 23(01), 15-31.