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Öz, Ö (2001) Sources of competitive advantage of Turkish construction companies in international markets. Construction Management and Economics, 19(02), 135-44.

Han, S S and Ofori, G (2001) Construction industry in China's regional economy, 1990-1998. Construction Management and Economics, 19(02), 189-205.

Lam, K C, Hu, T, Ng, S T, Skitmore, M R and Cheung, S O (2001) A fuzzy neural network approach for contractor prequalification. Construction Management and Economics, 19(02), 175-88.

Lingard, H and Holmes, N (2001) Understandings of occupational health and safety risk control in small business construction firms: barriers to implementing technological controls. Construction Management and Economics, 19(02), 217-26.

Ng, S T, Mak, M M Y, Skitmore, M R, Lam, K C and Varnam, M (2001) The predictive ability of Bromilow's time-cost model. Construction Management and Economics, 19(02), 165-73.

Ofori, G and Lean, C S (2001) Factors influencing development of construction enterprises in Singapore. Construction Management and Economics, 19(02), 145-54.

Raftery, J, Csete, J and Hui, S K-F (2001) Are risk attitudes robust? Qualitative evidence before and after a business cycle inflection. Construction Management and Economics, 19(02), 155-64.

Sözen, Z and Kayahan, O (2001) Correlates of the length of the relationship between main and specialist trade contractors in the construction industry. Construction Management and Economics, 19(02), 131-3.

  • Type: Journal Article
  • Keywords: Interorganizational relationships; main-speciality contractor relationship; strategic alliances
  • ISBN/ISSN: 0144-6193
  • URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/01446190010000185
  • Abstract:

    Although there is a growing literature on the factors associated with the length of interorganizational relationships, there seem to be few empirical studies related to the subject in project-based industries such as construction. In this study we looked for correlations among the length of the relationship between main and specialist trade contractors, control methods and the number of rival speciality contractors in the Turkish construction industry, drawing on the data provided by a study of 27 specialist trade contractors. Correlation analysis was used to investigate the relationship. The results demonstrate that the length of the relationship between main and speciality contractors is inversely related to the number of rival specialist trade contractors, but directly related to the flexibility of control exercised by the main contractor.

Sawhney, A and Mund, A (2001) IntelliCranes: an integrated crane type and model selection system. Construction Management and Economics, 19(02), 227-37.

Tam, C M, Tong, T K L, Cheung, S O and Chan, A P C (2001) Genetic algorithm model in optimizing the use of labour. Construction Management and Economics, 19(02), 207-15.