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Alvanchi, A, Lee, S and AbouRizk, S (2012) Dynamics of Working Hours in Construction. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 138(01), 66–77.
Bakhoum, E S and Brown, D C (2012) Developed Sustainable Scoring System for Structural Materials Evaluation. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 138(01), 110–9.
Bemelmans, J, Voordijk, H, Vos, B and Buter, J (2012) Assessing Buyer-Supplier Relationship Management: Multiple Case-Study in the Dutch Construction Industry. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 138(01), 163–76.
Bo, X and Chan, A P C (2012) Investigation of Barriers to Entry into the Design-Build Market in the People’s Republic of China. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 138(01), 120–7.
El-Diraby, T E (2012) Epistemology of Construction Informatics. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 138(01), 53–65.
Han, S, Lee, S and Peña-Mora, F (2012) Identification and Quantification of Non-Value-Adding Effort from Errors and Changes in Design and Construction Projects. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 138(01), 98–109.
Jarkas, A M (2012) Buildability Factors Influencing Concreting Labor Productivity. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 138(01), 89–97.
Ji, S, Park, M and Lee, H (2012) Case Adaptation Method of Case-Based Reasoning for Construction Cost Estimation in Korea. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 138(01), 43–52.
Kim, B and Hong, T (2012) Revised Case-Based Reasoning Model Development Based on Multiple Regression Analysis for Railroad Bridge Construction. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 138(01), 154–62.
Leung, M and Chan, I Y S (2012) Exploring Stressors of Hong Kong Expatriate Construction Professionals in Mainland China: Focus Group Study. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 138(01), 78–88.
Lhee, S C, Issa, R R A and Flood, I (2012) Prediction of Financial Contingency for Asphalt Resurfacing Projects using Artificial Neural Networks. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 138(01), 22–30.
Shrestha, P P, O’Connor, J T and Gibson, G E (2012) Performance Comparison of Large Design-Build and Design-Bid-Build Highway Projects. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 138(01), 1–13.
Song, X, Peña-Mora, F, Menassa, C C and Arboleda, C A (2012) Insurance as a Risk Management Tool for ADR Implementation in Construction Disputes. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 138(01), 14–21.
Taghaddos, H, AbouRizk, S, Mohamed, Y and Hermann, U (2012) Simulation-Based Auction Protocol for Resource Scheduling Problems. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 138(01), 31–42.
Yang, H, Chan, A P C, Yeung, J F Y and Li, Q (2012) Concentration Effect on Construction Firms: Tests of Resource Partitioning Theory in Jiangsu Province (China) from 1989 to 2007. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 138(01), 144–53.
- Type: Journal Article
- Keywords: Construction industry; Organizations; China; Construction companies; Resource management; Construction industry; Concentration; Organizational ecology; Resource partitioning; Event history analysis; China;
- ISBN/ISSN: 0733-9364
- URL: https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)CO.1943-7862.0000416
- Abstract:
Along with the economic acceleration and the consequent flourishing of urban infrastructure and real estate, there has been a tremendous development within the Chinese construction industry. However, the industry continues to suffer from excessive competition and low profit margins. Based on the resource partitioning process of organizational ecology theory, which predicts how market concentration relates to the survival of specialist and generalist organizations, this study analyzes the structure and the structural effect of the Jiangsu construction industry. Using the event history analysis method and data of all companies known to have operated during the period 1989–2007, the survival of both large and small construction companies within this low but increasing concentration industry has been investigated. It is concluded that the increasing concentration of the Jiangsu construction industry has a negative effect on the survival of construction companies. Nevertheless, no resource partitioning process can have occurred because it is found that the effect of concentration on decline for smaller companies is greater than for larger ones, which violates the assumption of the resource partitioning theory. In addition, macroeconomic policies and factors at the firm level have proved significant in relation to the incidence of survival of Jiangsu construction companies. Although this research focused mainly on the major construction companies of one province in China, the result reflects the profile of the whole country to some extent, and the research method could be replicated in other parts of the world for international comparisons. This would assist in understanding the structures of the construction industries in different countries and the structural effect on the survival of different types of firms.
Yu, W and Wang, K (2012) Best Value or Lowest Bid? A Quantitative Perspective. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 138(01), 128–34.
Zerjav, V, Hartmann, T and Javernick-Will, A (2012) Internal Governance of Design and Engineering: The Case of the Multinational Firm. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 138(01), 135–43.