Using AHP technique to evaluate the situation of construction e-procurement institutionalization

Abstract

This study focuses on evaluating the situation of e-procurement institutionalization in the construction industry under three perspectives including internal organization, operational clusters, and industrial supports. Data collected by in-depth structured interviews with key managers from within a sample of 31 Vietnamese construction firms was analyzed to assign weights to measures through the AHP technique. The results can be used by business managers to build an effective action plan toward e-procurement sophistication and by government policy makers to formulate targeted supportive programs for e-procurement in the Vietnamese construction industry.

Evolutionary Model of e-Procurement Adoption: A Case of the Vietnam Construction Industry

“…Next, twenty case studies were selected randomly from the sampling frame and asked to participate the research project; ten of these 20 companies agreed. Then, the researchers used an e-procurement status assessment framework, which was previously developed as a result of the same project (Tran, Anthony Stewart et al, 2020), to conduct an assessment of e-procurement status in these ten companies. Finally, the top five companies with the highest scores were selected for further data collection.…”

“…The characteristics of the five cases were summarized in Table 1. In order to assess the e-procurement status of each companies studied, the study used the framework of eprocurement assessment that was developed and previously published in Tran, Anthony Stewart et al (2020). Accordingly, the framework considered the e-procurement status of a company under three main perspectives: Internal e-procurement resources (IntePR), Operational clusters' e-procurement resources (OCePR), and Industrial e-procurement resources (IndePR).…”

“…These three perspectives are assessed through thirteen factors as showed in Figure 1. The relative weights were established using the AHP technique (Tran, Anthony Stewart et al, 2020).…”