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Publication date: 28 August 2009

Yenming J. Chen, Tien‐Hua Wu and Yan‐Ling Chen

The purpose of this paper is to examine the recycling business in Taiwan as well as its impacts on the collection, environment, economy, and society, providing a good example of…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to examine the recycling business in Taiwan as well as its impacts on the collection, environment, economy, and society, providing a good example of setting up an efficient national paradigm.

Design/methodology/approach

This paper proposes an alternative policy of dynamic rate of recycling fee as Taiwan's current recycling system is not beneficial to spurring design for environment (DfE).

Findings

The paper demonstrates that this improvement will indeed result in changes for entrepreneurs and manufacturers toward green design and financial benefits for flourishing the recycling industry.

Originality/value

Regardless of the progressive success for the current system in Taiwan, a flat rate recycling fee scheme possesses limited inspiration to promote the concept of DfE. In addition to existing literature, the proposed dynamic recycling fee policy demonstrates the increased level of DfE engagement.

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European Business Review, vol. 21 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0955-534X

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Publication date: 28 August 2009

Tzong-Ru Lee and Goran Svensson

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European Business Review, vol. 21 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0955-534X

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Publication date: 19 May 2023

Ling Yan, Yichao Chen and Tingting Cao

The consulting team intervenes in the integrated construction consulting (ICC) network structure centered on “client-contractor-consultant.” Team boundary-spanning behavior (TBB…

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Purpose

The consulting team intervenes in the integrated construction consulting (ICC) network structure centered on “client-contractor-consultant.” Team boundary-spanning behavior (TBB) driven by the network structure is crucial to project performance. This article investigated how to stimulate the consulting project performance (CPP) improvement by considering the interactive effect of network structure and TBB. To be specific, this paper explored the configuration between structural characteristics of project networks, the dimension of TBB, and project performance in ICC projects.

Design/methodology/approach

Network density and centrality were used to reflect network structure. This study collected 216 valid responses from construction professionals (including project managers, department managers, and project engineers) via a questionnaire survey and analyzed the data using fsQCA.

Findings

Combining with the corresponding typical project case and analysis, the results concluded four types of configurations for achieving high performance in the ICC projects. Meanwhile, network centrality, density, ambassadorial behavior, coordination behavior, and detection behavior significantly impact high consulting project performance. Matching ICC network characteristics with the TBB is important. There are also three low performance configurations for the ICC projects. Low performance state also occurs when network centrality or density and coordination behavior is simultaneously low. Only the right match between the network characteristics and TBB can produce high consulting project performance.

Research limitations/implications

The network centrality and density, the implementation of TBB vary, and the paths to achieve high consulting project performance are different. Clients, ICC projects, and consulting teams should choose the appropriate development paths according to the actual situation. (1) Clients should commit to applying the ICC project model with high network centrality, density, and coordination behavior of ICC enterprises to promote project performance. (2) Consulting enterprises should carry out ICC business based on detecting behavior and coordinating behavior. (3) The market should cultivate head consulting enterprises with independence and integration, and bring into play the effectiveness of consulting team ambassadorial behavior.

Practical implications

Comparing the results of the four high CPP configurations, the network structure characteristics are essential, which means that in the Chinese consulting practice between the owner and the consulting firm pay attention to the use of appropriate ICC organizational structure model and arrange the degree of centralization of authorized responsibilities. Coordination behavior is necessary to achieve high CPP. Therefore, Chinese consulting firms should pay attention to effective communication and exchange with project contractors in order to get high CPP in conducting business; meanwhile, enabling behavior can achieve high CPP both in the presence and absence of configuration H1 and H4, which indicates that enabling behavior has substitution effect. Comparing the three low CPP configurations also contrarily confirms the indispensability of coordinating behavior. Comparing the results of high and low CPP configurations, the TBB is seriously missing and not properly applied in CPP enhancement. In detail, Chinese consulting firms have been regarded as independent third parties providing services, and less attention has been paid to the TBB of Chinese consulting firms in past practice, thus leading to the dilemma of inadequate empowerment of consulting firms due to their unclear status. To solve this dilemma, the findings of this paper offer a solution at the micro level to change the previous perception of consulting and demonstrate that Chinese consulting practice needs to pay attention to TBB with owners and contractors, and apply it well to enhance the reputation, management consulting level and capability, and experience and expertise of consulting firms to achieve high CPP.

Originality/value

The research results changed from the previous bilateral project governance to a new perspective of network embedding. It provided a theoretical basis for the improvement path of high consulting project performance, as well as providing ideas for clients on the organizational design of ICC projects. On the other hand, it provided a practical reference for TBB positioning of ICC enterprises for transformation and upgrading development.

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Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, vol. 31 no. 11
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0969-9988

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Publication date: 1 January 2025

Ling Yan, Shuangshuang Wen and Qing Li

The contractor’s design behavior in engineering procurement construction (EPC) mode plays a decisive role in controlling design risks, ensuring construction quality and improving…

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Purpose

The contractor’s design behavior in engineering procurement construction (EPC) mode plays a decisive role in controlling design risks, ensuring construction quality and improving project value in terms of project performance. Organizational control is an important way to intervene and strengthen organizational behavior. Reasonably arranging organizational control of the design projects in EPC mode will greatly affect the contractor’s design behavior choices and achieve project goals. There are few existing studies that focus on the contractor’s classification design behavior management from the perspective of two-tier cross-domain control of the design projects in EPC mode. To fill the knowledge gap, this study explores how the two-tier cross-domain control linkage effect affects the contractor’s design behavior choice of the design projects in EPC mode through a configuration analysis.

Design/methodology/approach

This study selects five antecedent variables from the perspective of two-tier cross-domain control (including inter-organizational and intra-organizational controls) through literature review. This study collected 290 valid responses from the design projects in EPC mode practitioners through a questionnaire survey and analyzed the data using fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis.

Findings

The results of the necessity and sufficiency analysis indicate that (1) single control is not a necessary condition for contractor’s design behavior, but outcome control and social control play a more universal role in generating a contractor’s design behavior. (2) The four paths that affect the contractor’s design proactive behavior can be divided into two groups: one emphasizes the combined effect of three inter-organizational control, while the other highlights the considerable impact of synergistic inter- and intra-organizational control. (3) There are four paths that affect the contractor’s design compliance behavior. Compared with the organizational configuration of the contractor’s proactive design behavior, process control should be combined with bureaucratic control and clan control to play a role in the absence of outcome control and social control.

Originality/value

This study provides a more detailed explanation for how the linkage effect of the two-tier cross-domain control affects the contractor’s design behavior of the design projects in EPC mode. It broadens the application of positive organizational behavior and organizational control theory. In practice, this study provides a suitable control path for mutual benefit and a win-win situation between owners and contractors to promote the success of the design projects in EPC mode.

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Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, vol. ahead-of-print no. ahead-of-print
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0969-9988

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Publication date: 14 September 2017

Iman Hesam Arefi, Mehri Saffari and Rooholla Moradi

The purpose of this study is to simulate the climate change impacts on winter wheat production and evaluate the possibilities of using various varieties and shifting planting date…

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Purpose

The purpose of this study is to simulate the climate change impacts on winter wheat production and evaluate the possibilities of using various varieties and shifting planting date as two climate change adaptation strategies in Kerman Province, Iran.

Design/methodology/approach

Two types of global circulation model and three scenarios for three periods were used. Daily climatic parameters were generated by LARS-WG (Long Ashton Research Station-Weather Generator). The CERES-wheat model was used to simulate future winter wheat growth, development and production.

Findings

The results showed that CO2 had no effect on the phenology of winter wheat, and the negative impact of temperature on the grain yield was higher than the positive effect of CO2 enrichment. The length of the reproductive growth period of the winter wheat was significantly shortened as affected by the negative impacts of rise in temperature. The simulated results indicated that the grain yield of common (medium maturing) variety of winter wheat will decline, ranging from −0.27 to −18.71 per cent according to future climate changes. Adaptation strategies showed that the early maturing variety had a higher and more stable grain yield under climate change conditions than medium and delayed maturing varieties. Earlier planting date (20 October) increased wheat grain yield under future climatic conditions than common (November 5) planting date. In reverse, later planting (November 20) would accelerate harmful effects of climate change on wheat grain yield.

Originality/value

The results highlighted the potential of early maturing variety and early planting date as the appropriate agronomical approaches for mitigating harmful impacts of climate change on winter wheat production in arid regions.

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International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management, vol. 9 no. 6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1756-8692

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