Partnering: Why Project Owner-Contractor Relationships Change

Types of collaboration between foreign contractors and their Chinese partners

“…A number of discussions and views have focused on this area, with more proponents considering project-level collaboration (e.g. [5,6]). Simonin [7] presumes that all types of collaboration are of strategic alliances in the study.…”

“…While international collaboration has been discussed extensively in the literature previously [3][4][5][6], existing international business theories do not give a convincing category of types of international collaboration. This may result in ineffective collaboration strategies.…”

Managing projects from a client perspective: The concept of the meetings-flow approach

“…In contrast, the more recent partnering approach allows for a fully integrative and collaborative development to take place between the client and the developer. However, it requires an extensive working relationship and may result in an excessive burden to project clients in typical client-supplier situations (Alderman and Ivory, 2007;Drexler and Larson, 2000;Ng et al, 2002). This is where the importance of conveniently timed and wellplanned meetings enters into the discussion.…”

Analysis of the Partnering Relations of Polish, Slovak and Ukrainian Construction Enterprises / Lenkijos, Slovakijos Ir Ukrainos Statybos Įmonių Partnerystės Santykių Analizė

“…e.g. (Shields and West 2003;Franke and Grebenc 2008;Chan et al 2003;Baxendale and Greaves 1997;Drexler and Larson 2000;Gransberg et al 1999), but there are also publications on the successful strategic partnering, e,g, (Kaluarachchi and Jones 2007;Eom et al 2008). Other works draw attention to problems encountered by those construction enterprises which implement partnering, e.g.…”