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... Emerald Publishing Limited 2021 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Construction industry Integration Supply-chain management Customer-oriented performance measures Value chain Customer value In today’s manufacturing environment, end consumers choose from...

... Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Construction industry Risk management Transaction cost theory Supply chain risk management Neo-institutionalism Transaction costs This study explores how external neo-institutional pressures shape the internal transaction cost drivers...

... of the construction industry, the prefabricated house industry is characterised by a higher process orientation in order fulfilment. It facilitates better control of the value chain and ensures a higher portion of repetitive operations as well as provides a stable and permanent organisation (Höök and Stehn, 2008...

...Christian A. Rudolf; Stefan Spinler Purpose Large-scale projects are the typical delivery model in the engineering and construction industry, with their very own characteristics. Even though well established, only 1 in 1,000 large-scale projects is successful ( Flyvbjerg, 2011 ). A lack...

... attempted and constitutes the novelty of this work. Construction industry Structural equation model Green supply chains Empirical study Climate change due to rising greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and resource depletion is one of the major challenges of the twenty-first century (UNEP, 2010...

.... Findings – The results show that the global awareness level of SCM and the relationships level among the entities in the Portuguese construction industry are low, which is in alignment with previous research work. These results also show that SCM in the construction industry is a complex task due...

... on forward logistics and RL, there is a paucity of studies that examine the barriers to implementing RL particularly within the Australian construction industry. This study builds on the ongoing research being undertaken by the authors, entitled “Designing for reverse logistics (DfRL) within the building...

.../value The main theoretical argument put forward in this paper centres on the need for greater levels of supplier integration amongst suppliers to the modular construction industry. The study is one of the first to explore supply chain integration through the lens of a single modular supply chain...

.... Originality/value The main theoretical argument put forward in this paper is that the application of SCM models developed for other industrial contexts such as the automotive industry, are problematic to use in the construction industry. This is because these models emphasise integration of activities...

... industrial settings as a means for improving supply chain performance. In the project‐based construction industry, lean thinking has, however, not yet been widely adopted. The purpose of this paper is to increase the understanding of how various aspects of lean thinking can be implemented in a construction...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Organizations Information systems Construction industry Knowledge sharing Inventory Canada Information technologies (ITs) have already been used to support various intra‐ and inter‐organizational processes in the construction industry, including...

...Anders Segerstedt; Thomas Olofsson; Anders Segerstedt; Thomas Olofsson Purpose The purpose of this paper is to introduce a special issue about the construction industry and the management of its supply chains. It aims to discuss and point to some differences and possible similarities...

...Anders Segerstedt; Thomas Olofsson; Hans‐Martin Lönngren; Christoph Rosenkranz; Harald Kolbe Purpose The purpose of this paper is to address the management of supply chains within the construction industry. Supply chains in this sector evidence a marked tendency to waste and inefficiency. One...

... Hartmann can be contacted at: a.hartmann@utwente.nl © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Subcontracting Procurement Prices Trust Construction industry The Netherlands Subcontracting is a key characteristic of construction. For up to 90 per cent of the total value...

.... Findings The information provided by the multiple informants was, to a large extent, consistent with much of the academic literature relating to the importance of and barriers to trust. Specifically, the case studies highlighted: what people within the construction industry understand by trust, reliance...

... savings in discrete activities. Originality/value This paper challenges conventional thinking with respect to the application of lean principles to the construction industry and calls for greater awareness of the project‐centric nature of the construction industry and the application of lean thinking...

...Geoffrey Briscoe; Andrew Dainty Purpose To empirically investigate the problems encountered in trying to integrate supply chains in the UK construction industry and to set these problems in the context of the extensive literature on supply chain management and partnering. Design/methodology...

...Paul Ireland This paper investigates the impact of lean and partnering approaches to supply management in the construction industry. The paper outlines how the project environment that is endemic in the construction industry creates power regime structures that are often resistant to lean...

... maximum business process efficiency and effectiveness through intra and inter organizational relations, the construction industry has been slow, or perhaps even reluctant, to employ the concept (Love, 2000). The reasoning for the poor up‐take of SCM in construction is outside the scope of this paper...