Identifying the Contractor’s core competencies in post-COVID-19 scenario: developing a survey instrument

Deep, Shumank; Joshi, Rajesh K.; Patil, Sanjay

doi:10.1108/ecam-02-2022-0128

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“…Reimagining for the next normal is crucial for the construction industry to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic shock. Managing the site safety, leadership skills, technical competence, and supply chain disruption were highlighted as the core competencies for the contractors in the post-COVID-19 construction industry (Cai et al, 2021;Deep et al, 2022). Additionally, industry leaders and professionals should create detailed business plans by scrutinizing the current post-COVID-19 market situations and trends (Hook, 2020).…”

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Diagnosing and quantifying post-COVID-19 fluctuations in the architecture billings indices

Kim

Makhmalbaf

Shahandashti

2022

ECAM

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to understand the post-COVID-19 fluctuations in the building construction demand from various angles at the national, regional, and sectoral levels. Despite the significant impact of COVID-19 on the building construction industry, a detailed quantitative analysis of the COVID-19 impact on the building construction demand is still lacking. The current study aims to (1) establish a statistical approach to quantify the COVID-19 impact on the building construction demand; (2) investigate the post-COVID-19 fluctuations in the construction demand of different building services, regional markets, and building sectors using the historical time series of the architecture billings index (ABI); and (3) identify vulnerable market and sector and discuss the post-COVID-19 recovery strategies.Design/methodology/approachThe research methodology follows four steps: (1) collecting national, regional, and sectoral ABIs; (2) creating seasonal autoregressive integrated moving average models; (3) illustrating cumulative sum control charts to identify significant ABI deviations; and (4) quantifying the post-COVID-19 ABI fluctuations.FindingsThe results show that all the ABIs experienced a statistically significant decrease after COVID-19. The project inquiries index reduced more but recovered faster than billings and design contracts indices. The midwest billings index decreased the most among the regional ABIs and the commercial/industrial billing index dropped the most among the sectoral ABIs.Originality/valueThis study is unique in the way that it utilized the ABI data and the approach using SARIMA models and CUSUM control charts to assess the post-COVID-19 building construction demand represented by ABI fluctuations.

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“…Managing the site safety, leadership skills, technical competence, and supply chain disruption were highlighted as the core competencies for the contractors in the post-COVID-19 construction industry (Cai et al. , 2021; Deep et al. , 2022).…”

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Diagnosing and quantifying post-COVID-19 fluctuations in the architecture billings indices

Kim

Makhmalbaf

Shahandashti

2022

ECAM

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“…In the Netherlands and globally, notwithstanding the war in Ukraine (Harper, 2022), and the ongoing impact of Covid-19 pandemic on supply chains (Alicke et al, 2020;Deep et al, 2022;Sarkar et al, 2022), there are numerous business-related CE hurdles, such as, products being designed for long-term usage (transition from make-to-break economy), the acceptance of second-hand products by consumers, return-logistics of products, amended financial balance sheet structure with reduced investment opportunities for the company and CE friendly business models (Kirchherr et al, 2017). In an organizational context, adopting CE values requires strategic commitment of the management board with a view to the next step of implementing return logistics and CE values (Bernon et al, 2018).…”

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“…In the Netherlands and globally, notwithstanding the war in Ukraine (Harper, 2022), and the ongoing impact of Covid-19 pandemic on supply chains (Alicke et al. , 2020; Deep et al. , 2022; Sarkar et al.…”

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Aiming for bullseye: a novel gameplan for circular economy in the construction industry

Zandee

Zutshi

Creed

et al. 2022

ECAM

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PurposeThe paper aims to provide managerial recommendations for implementing circular economy (CE) principles in both organizational and interorganizational contexts, including when using digital tools, such as building information modeling (BIM) and blockchain. Drawn from the construction sector in the Netherlands, the findings can be generalized to similar sectors where a company may receive multiple inputs as part of its supply chain augmented by digital technologies.Design/methodology/approachDesign addresses the research question: what are the strategic and tactical approaches of organizations on the CE pathway? Sub-questions target initiatives pursued by participants, and look toward information, roles and functions for supporting the CE process. Applying a multiple-case study approach (21 semi-structured interviews with 29 participants) the paper explores strategic initiatives of construction companies implementing CE pathways. The strength of the research design comes from facilitation of rich and deep qualitative insights from Netherlands-based managers embedded within global supply chains contributing to conceptual mapping. A limitation is data from one country (though representing both national and multinational companies).FindingsInterviewed managers share guidance for production-related construction companies anchored in materials and product design. Recommendations include to (1) develop both internally and externally the awareness of CE amongst leaders, (2) communicate with internal and external stakeholders for shared vision across the supply chain, (3) start with pilot projects, and (4) ensure product data-integration for CE business models through computer modeling and blockchain for decision-making processes, choices of materials, business model coordination and product (re)design. Continuous learning about CE roles and responsibilities amidst organizational process restructuring is required throughout linear to CE transitions. Extending the time for the CE principles evaluation process would allow for reconsideration of decisions made for CE implemented projects.Originality/valueA novel CE gameplan with a hurdles and recommendations checklist provides an operational interface with decision making points between internal factors for the host organization and external supply chain partners.

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“…During the spread of the new coronavirus, government agencies imposed many construction regulations on construction sites, and there were changes in the workflow and wearing of anti-epidemic equipment on construction sites. Some studies have found that the critical competence of the post-COVID-19 construction industry includes managing site safety, leadership skills, technical competence, managing supply chain disruption, and financial stability [5]. Managing site safety is considered to be the most important competency of the post-COVID-19 construction industry.…”

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Causal Model Analysis of the Effect of Policy Formalism, COVID-19 Fear, Social Support and Work Stress on Construction Workers’ Anxiety during the Epidemic

Liu

2022

Buildings

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This study mainly explores the impact of policy formalism, COVID-19 fear, social support, and work stress on the anxiety of construction workers during the epidemic. The main objective of this study is to incorporate formalism variables to explore their impact on the stress and anxiety of construction workers during the epidemic. In particular, the variable of formalism is changed from the variable of government bureaucracy to the cognition of “policy formalism” of the general public. This study intends to understand whether the gap between epidemic prevention regulations and practices affects the fear of construction site workers. A total of 743 construction site worker samples in the leisure industry were collected in this study, and the established hypotheses were tested using confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling. The results of the study confirmed that during the COVID-19 outbreak, social support of site workers negatively affects anxiety; COVID-19 fear positively affects anxiety and work stress; work stress mediates the relationship between COVID-19 fear and anxiety; fear of infecting family members and fear of infecting self both positively affect anxiety; policy formalism positively affects fear of infecting family members and fear of infecting self.

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Identifying the Contractor’s core competencies in post-COVID-19 scenario: developing a survey instrument

Cited by 12 publications

References 51 publications

Diagnosing and quantifying post-COVID-19 fluctuations in the architecture billings indices

Diagnosing and quantifying post-COVID-19 fluctuations in the architecture billings indices

Aiming for bullseye: a novel gameplan for circular economy in the construction industry

Causal Model Analysis of the Effect of Policy Formalism, COVID-19 Fear, Social Support and Work Stress on Construction Workers’ Anxiety during the Epidemic

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