... into the barriers facing mainstream small to medium-sized enterprises and, to a lesser extent, social enterprises in construction, the barriers to entry facing Indigenous construction enterprises have been largely ignored. Industry Small to medium-sized enterprises Procurement Small enterprises Labour...

...Yukiko Konno Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors influencing defaults and exits from public works by prime contractors of small and medium-sized enterprises in the Japanese construction industry. By analysing the data for several years as panel data, this study...

... in small-to-medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in the Australian construction industry. Design/methodology/approach – Data were collected in two stages. First, data from a sub-set of construction industry workers were extracted from a large scale survey of workers in Victoria, Australia (the VicWAL...

.... Findings – The findings suggest small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) incorporate some aspects of CSR into their business activities even though they do not refer to the practices as CSR, as none of them have a formal CSR policy in place. Most SMEs in the construction industry implement ethical...

... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Innovation SME construction firms Decision making Product innovation Process innovation Australia Construction industry Small to medium‐sized enterprises The construction industry is often compared unfavourably with the manufacturing...

... for adoption of ICT for BPM. Communication technologies Project management Small to medium‐sized enterprises Protocols Building project management (BPM) requires collection, analysis and real time communication of information for the quick detection of time, cost, scope and quality deviations...

... (capital and labour): Q=f(K, L). Europe Macroeconomics Production economics Construction industry Small to medium‐sized enterprises Construction activity within the EU‐27 in 2006 (FIEC, 2007) generated almost 1,200 Billion Euros (10.4 per cent of the EU's Gross...

... data in grounded theory there are three coding steps according to Strauss and Corbin (1990) . These are open coding, axial coding and selective coding. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Construction industry Knowledge capture Knowledge management Learning styles Small to medium...

... learning and performance, four SETs of small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) were established. This paper evaluates the capacity of action learning to promote innovation and use of technologies within a CIOB‐funded SET located in Watford. Construction companies were unable to address real problems...