Journal of Management in Engineering: Recent submissions
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Front-End Planning for Large and Small Infrastructure Projects: Comparison of Project Definition Rating Index Tools
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)Despite the need to reform, maintain, and expand U.S. infrastructure, the construction industry often struggles to deliver infrastructure projects that meet their target budget and schedule. One successful tool that assists ... -
Bias Measurement Scale for Repeated Dispute Evaluations
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)The multitiered dispute resolution (MTDR) process incorporating alternative dispute resolution (ADR) has become the mainstream contractual construction dispute resolution provision. A dispute is likely to be considered and ... -
Construction Parts in Building Projects: Definition and Case Study
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)In contrast to the manufacturing industry, value added per work hour has not increased over the last 5 years in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry. One of the major causes is the limited ... -
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(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)Public-private partnerships (PPPs) have been encouraged to facilitate the development of public rental housing (PRH) projects in China since 215. The desire for a more efficient and effective PRH delivery by PPPs increases ... -
Influence of Organizational Characteristics on Construction Project Performance Using Corporate Social Networks
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)This exploratory research examined the relationship between project performance and organizational characteristics in construction companies. Nine Chilean construction firms were involved in this study. Key performance ... -
Addressing Project Complexity: The Role of Contractual Functions
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)Project complexity leads to transaction risks in interorganizational exchanges and can negatively affect performance if appropriate governance mechanisms are absent. Although the contract prevails in construction projects ... -
Taxonomy for BIM and Asset Management Semantic Interoperability
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)At present, the capability to collect information from different sources [building information modeling (BIM), sensors, assets database] for asset management (AM) use has generated significant opportunities for asset owners ... -
Organizational Change Perspective on People Management in BIM Implementation in Building Projects
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)People management has been recognized as key to implementing building information modeling (BIM). This study aimed to identify the critical factors hindering and driving BIM implementation in terms of people management, ... -
Selecting Project Risk Preventive and Protective Strategies Based on Bow-Tie Analysis
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)In the practice of project risk management, project managers need to determine preventive actions to reduce risk probability before the risk occurs and/or protective actions to lower the risk impact after the risk occurrence. ... -
Incentivization and Interdependency in Construction Contracting
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)Construction projects require input from professionals of diverse disciplines. Effective cooperation among contracting parties is a necessary condition for successful projects; however, goals and motivations of contracting ... -
Empirical Identification and Evaluation of Risk in Highway Project Delivery Methods
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)The highway industry currently uses three fundamental delivery methods, design-bid-build (D-B-B), design-build (D-B), and construction manager/general contractor (CM/GC), to deliver transportation projects. Selecting an ... -
Relationship Network Structure and Organizational Competitiveness: Evidence from BIM Implementation Practices in the Construction Industry
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)Using the structural social capital perspective and a longitudinal data set on building information modeling (BIM) implementation practices in the construction industry in Shanghai, China, from 27 to 215, this study explores ... -
Strategies for Effective Management of Unsolicited Public–Private Partnership Proposals
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)Over the years, there has been an increasing trend in the use of unsolicited proposals for public–private partnership (PPP) project implementation. However, most unsolicited PPPs are often characterized as controversial ... -
A Multidimensional Framework for Unmanned Aerial System Applications in Construction Project Management
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)Unmanned aerial systems (UAS) are becoming prevalent and can be equipped with cameras, sensors, or other intelligent devices that offer useful information for various nonmilitary applications, such as environmental monitoring, ... -
Experimental Investigation of the Impact of Risk Preference on Construction Bid Markups
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)Risk preference plays an important role in decision making. The objective of this article is to show how much risk preferences influence bid-price decision making in bidding for construction contracts. Based on the literature ... -
Impact of Safety Climate on Types of Safety Motivation and Performance: Multigroup Invariance Analysis
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)Safety climate has a significant impact on safety motivation. Most prior studies focused on how motivated employees are in a unidimensional safety motivation scale, but they have overlooked why employees are motivated to ... -
Board Structure and Directors’ Role in Preventing Corporate Misconduct in the Construction Industry
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)The control of corporate misconduct has become one of the most significant challenges facing society today. Every year hundreds of firms are prosecuted for illegal behavior. Although there is growing interest in corporate ... -
Knowledge-Sharing Culture, Project-Team Interaction, and Knowledge-Sharing Performance among Project Members
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)For a project management organization, knowledge sharing among project members is very important to avoid similar mistakes, improve work efficiency, and reduce failure risks. However, knowledge-sharing performance is not ... -
Collaboration and Integration in Project-Based Supply Chains in the Construction Industry
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)This study investigates whether integrative and collaborative practices of the construction industry can be exclusively attributed to integrated project-delivery methods or whether traditional project-delivery methods also ... -
Political Risks in Central Asian Countries: Factors and Strategies
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)The rapid economic growth and massive demands on infrastructure in Central Asia have attracted a growing level of interest from international contractors. However, international construction projects in Central Asia present ...