... projects, which contribute to the success of construction companies in a competitive environment. Design/methodology/approach The present research is of an inferential, descriptive and survey nature. In this study, we identified the influential key performance indicators of construction companies...

...Hui Guo; Weisheng Lu Purpose Defining and measuring competitiveness has been a major focus in the business and competition literature over the past decades. The paper aims to use data-driven principal component analysis (PCA) to measure firm competitiveness. Design/methodology/approach A “3Ps...

... Competitiveness Vibration International practice Bidding Construction cost index Synchronicity International construction is one of the most attractive businesses that contractors expect to operate in the present era of globalization. According to the Engineering News-Record, the overseas contract...

...Rui-Dong Chang; Jian Zuo; Veronica Soebarto; Zhen-Yu Zhao; George Zillante Purpose Sustainability and competitiveness have received extensive attentions. Despite a large number of studies on sustainability and competitiveness in the construction industry, little research has been conducted...

... profit potential. The purpose of this paper is to experimentally investigate student (inexperienced) bidders’ competitiveness under full and partial information feedback conditions when the number of competing bidders is large (n=12). Design/methodology/approach – This paper adopted...

... competitive strategies, Sun Tzu's Art of War, and the networking approach. Design/methodology/approach The data collection instrument was a structured questionnaire. The data collection methods were mail survey and face‐to‐face interviews. The population comprised all A/E/C firms headquartered in China...