Catastrophic transitions of construction contracting behavior

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dc.citation.issue12
dc.citation.volume134
dc.contributor.authorCheung SO
dc.contributor.authorYiu TW
dc.contributor.authorLeung AYT
dc.contributor.authorChiu OK
dc.date.available2008-12
dc.date.issued24/11/2008
dc.description"This material may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the American Society of Civil Engineers. This material may be found at https://ascelibrary.org/doi/10.1061/%28ASCE%290733-9364%282008%29134%3A12%28942%29.”
dc.description.abstractThe ways to manage a construction project very much depend on the attitude of the people involved. Collectively this is identified as construction contracting behavior (CCB). The CCB of the construction industry is adversarial as pinpointed in many industry-wide reviews. A more cooperative project delivery approach has therefore been advocated. In fact, drive for efficiency provides the incentive for cooperation. Nevertheless, members of a project team, in representing their respective organizations, are often in conflict. The dichotomous pair of cooperation and aggression forces therefore coexist. It is not uncommon to note that CCB turns aggressive as the construction activities of a project intensify. This change is often sudden and thus matches well with the phenomenon of hysteresis described by the catastrophe theory (CT). It is hypothesized that the dynamics of CCB can be modeled by CT. The three-variable CT models include CCB (as dependent variable), cooperation forces (as normal factor) and aggression forces (as splitting factor). With data collected from a survey fitted by the Cuspfit program, it was found that trust intensity is an effective normal factor. Contract incompleteness and competitive inertia are splitting factors that trigger aggression. © 2008 ASCE.
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dc.format.extent942 - 952
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dc.identifier.citationJOURNAL OF CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT, 2008, 134 (12), pp. 942 - 952
dc.identifier.doi10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9364(2008)134:12(942)
dc.identifier.eissn1943-7862
dc.identifier.elements-id425117
dc.identifier.harvestedMassey_Dark
dc.identifier.issn0733-9364
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10179/16075
dc.relation.isPartOfJOURNAL OF CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT
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dc.subject.anzsrc0905 Civil Engineering
dc.subject.anzsrc1202 Building
dc.subject.anzsrc1504 Commercial Services
dc.titleCatastrophic transitions of construction contracting behavior
dc.typeJournal article
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pubs.organisational-group/Massey University/College of Sciences
pubs.organisational-group/Massey University/College of Sciences/School of Built Environment
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