Measuring the effect of project management on construction outputs: a new approach

Brown, Andrew W.; Adams, John

doi:10.1016/s0263-7863(99)00026-5

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“…63 factors believed to affect project performance were considered in this study and were listed under 10 groups based on the literature reviewed (Okuwoga 1998;Dissanayaka and Kumaraswamy 1999;Reichelt and Lynies 1999;Karim and Marosszeky 1999;Brown and Adams 2000;DETR 2000;Lehtonen 2001;Chan 2001;Samson and Lema 2002;Kuprenas 2003;Cheung et al 2004;Iyer and Jha 2005;Navon 2005;Love et al 2005;Ugwa and Haupt 2007). The performance factors were summarized and collected according to previous studies and others as recommended by local experts.…”

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Factors Affecting the Performance of Construction Projects in the Gaza Strip

Enshassi

Mohamed

Abushaban

2009

Journal of Civil Engineering and Management

307

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Abstract. Construction projects located in the Gaza Strip, Palestine suffer from many problems and complex issues. Consequently, the objective of this paper is to identify the factors affecting the performance of local construction projects; and to elicit perceptions of their relative importance. A comprehensive literature review was deployed to generate a set of factors believed to affect project performance. A total of 120 questionnaires were distributed to 3 key groups of project participants; namely owners, consultants and contractors. The survey findings indicate that all 3 groups agree that the most important factors affecting project performance are: delays because of borders/roads closure leading to materials shortage; unavailability of resources; low level of project leadership skills; escalation of material prices; unavailability of highly experienced and qualified personnel; and poor quality of available equipment and raw materials. Based on these findings, the paper recommends that: 1) project owners must work collaboratively with contractors and facilitate regular payments in order to overcome delays, disputes and claims; 2) project participants should actively have their input in the process of decision-making; and 3) continuous coordination and relationship between project participants are required through the project life cycle in order to solve problems and develop project performance.

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Factors Affecting the Performance of Construction Projects in the Gaza Strip

Enshassi

Mohamed

Abushaban

2009

Journal of Civil Engineering and Management

307

252

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“…In-person and e-mail interviews are conducted to confirm the details of these design reviews. Time, Cost, and Quality are the categories utilized to measure the success of projects in some papers (Baccarini 1999;Brown and Adams 2000). These three categories are applied for evaluation in this paper.…”

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A Comparative Study of the Design Process in General Construction Companies and Design Firms in Japan

Ogasawara

Yashiro

2018

Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering

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This paper aims to illustrate the design review process of "General Construction Companies" (GCCs) and "Design Firms" (DFs) in Japan. It then quantitatively evaluates the time duration for the production of "design and supportive documents" which is required to go through a design review.The research is divided into three stages. First, the constraints in the design process in both GCCs and DFs are illustrated. Second, the duration of each design phase is measured to assess the allocation of resources for design coordination required by the constraints. Third, the most commonly shared building types in the survey were evaluated based on the "designed floor area per month."The survey statistically confirms the characteristics of the front-loaded design process by GCCs in the Preliminary Design phase to the Detailed Design Phase. GCCs have more cost and time constraints than DFs, through the involvement of the Cost Estimation and Procurement division in the construction department. It requires the production of "design and supportive documents" throughout the design process. On the contrary, DFs tend to spend more time and resources in the later part of the design process. This grants DFs more flexibility in cost and time throughout the design process as they have less strict constraints than GCCs.

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“…Time, cost and performance form the prime project success measures [4,13,17,28]. They are so critical that they are referred to as the "iron triangle" [3] and the "eternal triangle" [17,57].…”

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“…According to this theory, moral hazard arises when performance incentives are based on an imperfect surrogate of the desired behavior [69]. The design of an imperfect incentive structure provides the agent with a motive to shirk his effort because such a structure lets his own economic interest diverge from that of the principal [13]. On the other hand, the incentive scheme can be designed to align the interests of both the agent and the principal.…”

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An agency theory model of ERP implementation

Basu

Lederer

2004

Proceedings of the 2004 SIGMIS Conference on Computer Personnel Research: Careers, Culture, and Ethics in a Networked Environme

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Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are becoming rapidly indispensable in order for large and medium sized organizations to run their operations. Therefore, management needs to know the factors that drive successful ERP implementation, a product of the continuous interaction between the implementation consultants and client firms. Agency theory has been successfully used by different researchers to explain relationships between two parties seeking a common outcome. This paper develops a model of testable propositions for applying agency theory to study the relationship between implementation consultants and client organizations deploying the ERP systems, and to consequently evaluate how the relationship affects the implementation success.

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Measuring the effect of project management on construction outputs: a new approach

Cited by 65 publications

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Factors Affecting the Performance of Construction Projects in the Gaza Strip

Factors Affecting the Performance of Construction Projects in the Gaza Strip

A Comparative Study of the Design Process in General Construction Companies and Design Firms in Japan

An agency theory model of ERP implementation

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