8 articles in this issue
Derek Henry Thomas Walker, James Harley, Anthony Mills
Project and program alliances have been an accepted form of project procurement for public infrastructure engineering projects in Australia and New Zealand (Australasia). Alliancing often provides best value and superior value for money when compared to t... see more
Perry Forsythe
Service quality has been studied across many construction related disciplines but little has been done concerning how it effects customer satisfaction during the day-to-day dynamics of onsite construction services. The research explores this setting in Au... see more
Thanuja Ramachandra, James Olabode Bamidele Rotimi
Payment delays and losses persist in the construction industry and continue to be a key concern to industry practitioners. Therefore an exploration of the key causes of payment delays and losses is undertaken in this study with the ultimate objective of s... see more
Wai Yee Betty Chiu, Fung FaI Ng
Some researchers claimed that job satisfaction directly affected organisational commitment but others considered it had a mediation effect on the relationship between some independent variables and organisational commitment. Thus, this paper aimed to exam... see more
De-Graft Owusu-Manu, Edward Badu, Gary D. Holt, David Edwards
Determinants of management innovation (MI) within the Ghanaian construction consulting sector are examined. A sample of 70 consulting firms is surveyed using self-administered questionnaires. Data are analysed using descriptive statistics and factor analy... see more
Mostafa Babaeian Jelodar, Tak Wing Yiu, Suzanne Wilkinson
The construction industry needs to move towards more relational procurement procedures to reduce extensive losses of value and avoid conflicts and disputes. Despite this, the actual conceptualization and assessment of relationships during conflict and dis... see more
Xosé Luís Fernández-López, Pablo Coto-Millán
Despite its contribution to the Spanish economy, as far as the authors are aware, the technical efficiency of the Spanish construction industry has neither been measured nor have the factors influencing it been analyzed. This paper measures the technical ... see more
Piyush Kumar Tiwari