Understanding the Inverted U-Shaped Relationship Between Contractual Complexity and Negotiation Efficiency: An Institutional Perspective

Project-Based Organizations’ Pursuit of Production Efficiency and Legitimate Power: An Institutional Perspective

“…The organizational expertise of an owner PBO is the extent to which the PBO understands the technical and managerial knowledge, experience, and skills of the project, such as the engineering tools and techniques, product applications, technological trends, and evolutions of the project (Grant et al, 1997). governance in the contract, which is consistent with the measurement of contractual complexity in previous literature (Wang et al, 2021b;Wang et al, 2018). The measure of organizational expertise was adapted from Ke et al (2009).…”

“…The way to measure contractual completeness is to evaluate whether the contract has included as many needed terms as possible in the project (Lu et al, 2016). Unlike this, we asked the respondents to evaluate the extent to which “there are detailed provisions” about project governance in the contract, which is consistent with the measurement of contractual complexity in previous literature (Wang et al, 2021b; Wang et al, 2018).…”

The role of contract incompleteness factors in project disputes: a hybrid fuzzy multi-criteria decision approach

“…Koc and Gurgun (2021) examined 27 ambiguity factors in construction contracts by using fuzzy technique for order preference by similarity to an ideal solution (TOPSIS) method to minimize misinterpretation of contract provisions and found that change-related factors were the most significant ones incurring conflicts. From another perspective, Wang et al (2021) examined the relationship between contractual complexity and negotiation efficiency based on contractual complexity factors and found an inversed U-shaped relationship. Despite the literature on contract incompleteness has received a particular attention recently (Table 1), underlying cause factors in contract incompleteness has not been investigated quantitatively in the literature.…”

“…, 2018) or TOPSIS (Koc and Gurgun, 2021) disregarding causal role of the factors. Some researchers also considered several statistical tools (Chong and Zin, 2010; Wang et al. , 2021; Yan and Zhang, 2020) to address contract document basis issues.…”

“…Majority of the existing literature on contract incompleteness relies on standalone MCDM methods such as AHP (Acharya et al, 2006;Youssef et al, 2018) or TOPSIS (Koc and Gurgun, 2021) disregarding causal role of the factors. Some researchers also considered several statistical tools (Chong and Zin, 2010;Wang et al, 2021;Yan and Zhang, 2020) to address contract document basis issues. This study aims to contribute to the knowledge of construction management by highlighting the underlying contract incompleteness factors arising because of poorly drafted contract documents.…”