Construction Management Functions for Developing Countries: Case of Cambodia

Kang, Youngcheol; Jin, Zhengxun; Hyun, Chang-Taek; Park, Hyeon

doi:10.1061/(asce)me.1943-5479.0000609

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“…The Cambodian construction industry has grown rapidly in the past decade, mainly due to increased investment in infrastructure development and rapid urbanization, leading to new housing [23,24]. However, the construction industry in Cambodia, which is very fragmented and dominated by small-to-medium sized enterprises (SMEs), has been recording poor performance due to several reasons, such as poor safety [25], productivity [26], and sustainability [23] performance.…”

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BIM Adoption in the Cambodian Construction Industry: Key Drivers and Barriers

Durdyev

Mbachu

Thurnell

et al. 2021

IJGI

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Critical issues surrounding the promotion and adoption of building information modeling (BIM) for construction projects are largely country-specific due to contextual socio-cultural, economic, and regulatory environments impacting construction operations and outcomes. There is little information on BIM adoption issues specific to the Cambodian construction industry (‘the industry’). This paper aims to narrow existing knowledge by investigating key drivers for, and barriers to the adoption of BIM in the industry. Using descriptive survey method, feedback was received from contractors and architects that were registered with their respective trade and professional associations in the industry. The multi-attribute method and the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS)-based Kendall’s coefficient of concordance (W) test were used to analyze the empirical datasets. Results showed that out of the 13 significant drivers identified in the study, the most influential comprised the technology’s ability to remarkably enhance project visualization and schedule performance; this is followed by awareness that the technology is redefining how project information is created and shared among stakeholders and therefore the future of the industry that cannot be ignored. On the other hand, the most constraining barrier to the adoption of the technology, out of 19 significant barriers, related to strong industry resistance to change, especially reluctance to change from 2D drafting to 3D modeling; other highly rated barriers included the high initial cost of the software and the shortage of professionals with BIM skills. Implementation of the study findings could support greater uptake of the technology and the leveraging of its key benefits to improving project success and the growth of the Cambodian construction industry, as well as those of other developing economies that share similar socio-cultural, economic, and regulatory environments.

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BIM Adoption in the Cambodian Construction Industry: Key Drivers and Barriers

Durdyev

Mbachu

Thurnell

et al. 2021

IJGI

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“…The importance of construction projects is growing significantly due to the rapid increase in the urbanization of developing countries (Banihashemi et al, 2017;Kang et al, 2018). It is Managerial control mechanisms 2451 largely accepted that the world is becoming complex day by day and the number of complex situations faced by project managers is increasing enormously (Daniel and Daniel, 2018).…”

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Managerial control mechanisms and their influence on project performance: an investigation of the moderating role of complexity risk

Maqsoom

Hamad²,

Ashraf

et al. 2020

ECAM

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PurposeDespite the efforts of project managers and the widespread use of project management methodologies, most of the projects remain unfulfilling in terms of delivering targeted performance. This for most part can be attributed to the inability of an organization to implement control mechanisms and ineffective management of complexity risk. Keeping in view the aforementioned problem, the objective of this study is to investigate the association between control modes and project performance. Moreover, this study also examines the moderating role of complexity risk on the association among various control modes and project performance.Design/methodology/approachThe data were collected from 171 construction projects through a postal questionnaire survey. Partial least squares structural equation modeling was utilized for testing the hypothesized relationships of the research model.FindingsThis study found significant positive relation between formal and informal control mechanisms and project performance. It is found that complexity risk significantly moderates the relationship between control modes and project performance. The results indicate that complexity risk positively moderates the relationship between outcome control and clan control with project performance. Furthermore, complexity risks negatively moderates the relationship between behavior control and project performance. However, the association between self-control and project performance is found insignificant in the presence of complexity risk.Originality/valueThis study is the first attempt to study the relationship of control mechanisms, complexity risk and project performance in the construction industry.

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“…The safety and health of workers in construction industry have become an important public health problem in recent decades. As life is the foundation of human existence, safety management should be the most important management function in the construction industry [9].…”

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The New Path to Improve Construction Safety Performance in China: An Evolutionary Game Theoretic Approach

Gao

Chen

et al. 2019

IJERPH

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Evidence shows that there are many work-related accidents and injuries happening in construction projects and governments have taken a series of administrative measures to reduce casualties in recent years. However, traditional approaches have reached a bottleneck due to ignoring market forces, and thus new measures should be conducted. This study develops a perspective of safety performance (SP) for construction projects in China and puts forward a conception of the safety information system by using several brainstorming sessions to strengthen the safety supervision of participants in the construction industry. This system provides rating information to the public, and bad performance contractors enter into a blacklist which will influence their economic activities. Considering the limited rationality of government and various contractors, this paper builds a reasonable evolutionary game model to verify the feasibility of the safety information system. The analysis results show that there is not a single set of evolutionarily stable strategies (ESSs), as different situations may lead to different ESSs. The efficiency of applying the safety information system (the blacklist) in the construction industry can be proved by reducing the government’s safety supervision cost and by enhancing construction safety at the same time.

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Construction Management Functions for Developing Countries: Case of Cambodia

Cited by 25 publications

References 20 publications

BIM Adoption in the Cambodian Construction Industry: Key Drivers and Barriers

BIM Adoption in the Cambodian Construction Industry: Key Drivers and Barriers

Managerial control mechanisms and their influence on project performance: an investigation of the moderating role of complexity risk

The New Path to Improve Construction Safety Performance in China: An Evolutionary Game Theoretic Approach

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