Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management: Volume 27 Issue 7

Social sustainability considerations in construction project feasibility study: a stakeholder salience perspective

Ashish Goel, L.S. Ganesh, Arshinder Kaur

Past research recommends integration of social sustainability (SS) considerations in construction project feasibility study for benefitting a larger group of project stakeholders…

State and determinants of inter-regional market entry practices in the Chinese construction industry: evidence from national quality award projects

Guangbin Wang, Chen Xia, Dongping Cao

Due to the lack of industrywide data, now there is only perceptual knowledge, through survey data, that construction firms may face great challenges in geographical…

Capitalising teamwork for enhancing project delivery and management in construction: empirical study in Malaysia

Jeffrey Boon Hui Yap, Wen Jie Leong, Martin Skitmore

Teamwork in the construction industry has attracted much attention from both academic and industrial circles. Most importantly, improving team effectiveness will increase the…

Influence of formal and informal stakeholder relationship on megaproject performance: a case of China

Jin Xue, Geoffrey Qiping Shen, Rebecca Jing Yang, Irfan Zafar, E.M.A.C. Ekanayake, Xue Lin, Amos Darko

The purpose of this research is to seek better relational strategies between formal and informal stakeholder relationships to improve megaproject performance.

Efficiency estimation and reduction potential of the Chinese construction industry via SE-DEA and artificial neural network

Fanning Yuan, Miaohan Tang, Jingke Hong

The objective of this study is to evaluate the overall technical efficiency, labor efficiency, capital efficiency and equipment efficiency of 30 Chinese construction sectors to…

Stable relationality and dynamic innovation: two models of collaboration in SME-driven offsite manufacturing supply chains in housing construction

Zelinna Pablo, Kerry Anne London

The study analyses collaborative practice in offsite manufacturing (OSM) housing supply chains, focusing specifically on supply chains driven by small and medium enterprises…

Critical overrun causations in marine projects

Hamidreza Karami, Oluwole Alfred Olatunji

Delay causations in infrastructure projects are well reported in normative literature. However, very little is known regarding the environment-related causations which can assist…

Modeling social sustainability in construction projects by integrating system dynamics and fuzzy‐DEMATEL method: a case study of highway project

Mozhdeh Rostamnezhad, Farnad Nasirzadeh, Mostafa Khanzadi, Mohammad Jafar Jarban, Masoud Ghayoumian

This research aims to model the social dimension of sustainability in construction projects. A new hybrid system dynamic (SD)–fuzzy Decision-Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory…

Bid/no-bid decision factors for Chinese international contractors in international construction projects

Guanghua Li, Chuan Chen, Guomin Zhang, Igor Martek

Factors affecting bid/no-bid decisions of international projects are more complex than those of domestic projects. The purpose of this paper is to identify and rank decision…