.... In particular, the authors investigate whether certain risks could be considered either challenges or opportunities for businesses in turbulent times to improve SC performance. Design/methodology/approach The construction industry is the focal study context as it is one of the most essential industries...

... Union believe that competition in their markets has increased over the past two years. The European Commission's new strategy for SMEs aims to apply the “think small first” principle to make the business environment easier for SMEs (Eurostat, 2008). The construction industry is organizationally...

...A. Weippert; S.L. Kajewski; P.A. Tilley In an attempt to bring the unique talents of various construction industry project participants together in a more productive and integrated manner, the Online Remote Construction Management (ORCM) project commenced in July 1999 proposing to test, field trial...

... such approach, which has significant potential for use in the construction industry, involves the use of distributed artificial intelligence, implemented in the form of multiple intelligent agents. Intelligent agents consist of self‐contained knowledge‐based systems that are able to tackle specialist problems...

...A.B. Ngowi The primary purpose of forming an alliance in the construction industry is to pool together the resources of the participating partners in order to form a team that has a competitive advantage. Each partner in an alliance has its own competence and market share that do not necessarily...

... through Teamwork (NSQT) (Atkinson, 1994) identified four kinds of teams for improvement activities: Construction industry Electronic commerce Supply chain Organizational change Information exchange The implementation of IT into an organisation fundamentally requires work practices...

... principles in the construction industry were raised during the interviews. The paper discusses how CE principles may be used to form a procurement system and concludes by proposing the measures that may be taken to overcome the barriers to this approach. © MCB UP Limited 2000 Purchasing...

...Albert P.C. Chan; Linda C.N. Fan; Ann T.W. Yu A reengineering philosophy for the construction industry has emerged, harvesting components of a production philosophy. The objective of construction process reengineering is to progressively develop an integrated project delivery process focusing...

...Joe C.W. Au; Winnie W.M. Yu Describes the quality management experience of a large‐scale infrastructure construction project in Hong Kong. Though the importance of quality has long been realized in the Hong Kong construction industry since the Government announced that only ISO 9000 certified...

...Ghassan Aouad; Michail Kagioglou; Rachel Cooper; John Hinks; Martin Sexton The 1970s and 1980s have witnessed the development of many technological advances in the construction industry. At the same time, IT has been perceived as a driver for many of the construction business and operational...