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Claver, E, Molina, J F and Tari, J J (2003) Strategic groups and form performance: the case of Spanish house-building firms. Construction Management and Economics, 21(04), 369-77.

Eyiah, A K and Cook, P (2003) Financing small and medium-scale contractors in developing countries: a Ghana case study. Construction Management and Economics, 21(04), 357-67.

Horsley, A, France, C and Quatermass, B (2003) Delivering energy efficient buildings: a design procedure to demonstrate environmental and economic benefits. Construction Management and Economics, 21(04), 345-56.

Ofori, G (2003) Frameworks for analysing international construction. Construction Management and Economics, 21(04), 379-91.

Pitt, M and Smith, A (2003) An assessment of waste management efficiency at BAA airports. Construction Management and Economics, 21(04), 421-31.

Shields, R and West, K (2003) Innovation in clean-room construction: a case study of co-operation between firms. Construction Management and Economics, 21(04), 337-44.

  • Type: Journal Article
  • Keywords: clean rooms; inter-organizational innovation; quasi-fixed network; risk; partnering; labour relations; Canada
  • ISBN/ISSN: 0144-6193
  • URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/0144619032000111232
  • Abstract:

    This study examines partnering between a large client, multinational contractors and specialist suppliers, and local subcontractors involved in a project to construct clean room facilities. An ethnographic approach is used, which demonstrates the changing attitudes, values and the new working arrangements that emerged. The social bond of a ’construction challenge’ was the basis of trust and sharing risk in a ’quasi-fixed network’. In place of formal contracts, ongoing bargaining and continuous negotiation took place. However, the client was seen to dominate the construction process. Shared workspaces or ’liminal zones’, betwixt and between firms, were created to allow collaboration. These are argued to be a practical organizational approach to sharing information and co-ordinating inter-firm activities. Among trades, agreements were struck to exchange training and apprenticeships for allowing foreign specialists and equipment to be imported by the high-purity gas supplier. Liminal zones appear to function as on-the-job classrooms for rapidly training workers in unfamiliar construction techniques and systems.

Thomas, A V, Kalidndi, S N and Ananthanarayanan, K (2003) Risk perception analysis of BOT road project participants in India. Construction Management and Economics, 21(04), 393-407.

Ye, S and Tiong, R L K (2003) Tariff adjustment frameworks for privately financed infrastructure projects. Construction Management and Economics, 21(04), 409-19.