Legal Issues Associated with Emergent Actor Roles in Innovative U.K. Procurement: Prime Contracting Case Study

Abstract

Pressure for reform in U.K. construction procurement has led to a move toward relational contracting. Long-term partnerships between clients and construction service providers have enabled traditional construction roles to change radically and the reconfiguration of relationships between these emergent actors. Social network analysis was used to examine the new roles and relationships under an innovative procurement strategy known as