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Three Theoretical Perspectives for Understanding Inter-firm Coordination of Construction Project Supply Chains

Construction Economics and Building

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Title Three Theoretical Perspectives for Understanding Inter-firm Coordination of Construction Project Supply Chains
 
Creator Formoso, Carlos Torres
Isatto, Eduardo Luis
 
Subject Management
Supply chain management, inter-firm coordination, project management, complexity.
Tendering
 
Description The success of construction projects is highly dependent on the coordination of a fairly large number of stakeholders, such as client organizations, designers, general contractors, and subcontractors. Each of those stakeholders can both affect and be affected by the way a project is managed, and none of them usually has the power or the ability to coordinate project supply chains. However, the existing literature on supply chain management does not provide a comprehensive theoretical foundation for describing or explaining the coordination of construction project supply chains. This paper discusses the role of three different theoretical perspectives for understanding the inter-firm coordination process of project supply chains in the construction industry: the Theory of Coordination, the Transaction Cost Theory and the Language-Action Perspective. The contribution of each theoretical approach is pointed out in the paper, and their complementary role is illustrated in a case study carried out in a petrochemical construction project in Brazil.
 
Publisher UTS ePRESS
 
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Date 2011-09-21
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
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Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/AJCEB/article/view/2198
10.5130/AJCEB.v11i3.2198
 
Source Construction Economics and Building; Vol 11, No 3 (2011): AJCEB; 1-17
2204-9029
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/AJCEB/article/view/2198/2500
 
Coverage Brazil
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Rights Copyright (c) 2011 Carlos Torres Formoso, Eduardo Luis Isatto
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0