Journal of Management in Engineering: Recent submissions
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Influence of Trust and Contract on Dispute Negotiation Behavioral Strategy in Construction Subcontracting
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)This paper examines the effects of trust and contract on the dispute negotiation behavioral strategy of general contractors and subcontractors in construction subcontracting, which is an underresearched area. This research ... -
Application of Reference Class Forecasting in Turkish Public Construction Projects: Contractor Perspective
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Cost overrun in construction projects is an important problem that can have serious financial consequences. It also reduces the effectiveness of planning and decision making not only for the contractor but for all parties ... -
Behavioral Economic Concepts for Funding Infrastructure Rehabilitation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)Behavioral economics is a newly emerging field that examines the impact of psychological factors such as attitudes, biases, and behaviors on decision makers’ choices. Because many decisions in engineering and management ... -
Highway Construction Cost Forecasting Using Vector Error Correction Models
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Highway construction costs are subject to significant variations over time. These fluctuations are apparent in trends of indices, such as the national highway construction cost index (NHCCI). These variations are problematic ... -
Framework for Integrating and Assessing Highway Infrastructure Data
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)State highway agencies invest a large amount of resources in collecting, storing, and managing various types of data, ranging from roadway inventory to pavement condition data, during the life cycle of a highway infrastructure ... -
Integrating Chaotic Initialized Opposition Multiple-Objective Differential Evolution and Stochastic Simulation to Optimize Ready-Mixed Concrete Truck Dispatch Schedule
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Delivering ready-mixed concrete (RMC) efficiently to construction sites is a practical concern and one of the most challenging tasks for RMC batch managers. Batch plant managers must consider both time and order factors ... -
Evaluating Contractors for Bonding: DEA Decision Making Model for Surety Underwriters
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)In several countries, it is a common practice for construction owners to require contractors to submit several types of surety bonds shifting the risk of contractors default to sureties. The process of evaluating contractors’ ... -
Critical Enablers for Codes of Ethics Implementation in Construction Organizations
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)One important aspect of ethics management is a clear design of responsibility and authorities structured in a way that allows full control of ethical standards. The purpose of this study is to identify and analyze factors ... -
Contractors’ Transformation Strategies for Adopting Building Information Modeling
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)The construction industry is beginning to utilize building information modeling (BIM), benefiting from the improved visualization and productivity, better coordination of construction drawings, building documents that ... -
Market Structure of International Construction Professional Services: Evidences from Top Design Firms
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Construction professional service (CPS) in the international arena has been very competitive despite that the industry is proliferating at a high rate. To excel in international business, CPS firms have the importance of ... -
Experimental Study on Virtual Value Management Workshop in Hong Kong
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Stakeholders engaged in value management (VM) practices often encounter the problem that the participants are too dispersed geographically from the workshop venue. Therefore, the introduction of a virtual collaboration ... -
Multiobjective Construction Schedule Optimization Using Modified Niched Pareto Genetic Algorithm
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)A construction schedule must satisfy multiple project objectives that often conflict with each other. While several earlier approaches attempted to generate optimal schedules in terms of several criteria, most of their ... -
Customer Earned Value: Performance Indicator from Flow and Value Generation View
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)The earned value method (EVM) is considered an advanced project control technique that provides a quantitative measure of work performance. However, the EVM is effective only under the assumption that every activity is ... -
Opportunism-Focused Transaction Cost Analysis of Public-Private Partnerships
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)While the higher efficiency due to better pooling of resources is greatly emphasized in public–private partnerships (PPPs), the embedded transaction inefficiencies are often understated or even ignored. Through the lens ... -
Analysis of Workflow Variability and Its Impacts on Productivity and Performance in Construction of Multistory Buildings
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)The meeting of milestones presents a constant challenge in construction projects. One root cause behind this challenge is the presence of variability in the project workflow. In fact, impacts of variability at both the ... -
Adaptation and Integration for Multinational Project-Based Organizations
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)To succeed internationally, multinational, project-based organizations in the architectural, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry need to both adapt to local environments and integrate knowledge and processes across ... -
Strategies for Enhancing Project Performance
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)Projects are routinely conceived and executed to operationalize strategic objectives of organizations. Consequently, global spending on projects is increasing exponentially and the project management profession is experiencing ... -
Construction Innovation: Fifth Generation Perspective
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)Despite what many researchers, governments, and commentators say, there is a considerable amount of innovation that occurs in the construction industry. Negative opinions of construction innovation are often misinformed ... -
Markov Model—Based Building Deterioration Prediction and ISO Factor Analysis for Building Management
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)While the Markov chain was successfully used for predicting the average condition of a network of assets under one influencing factor, incorporating the effect of a number of factors into a Markov chain model requires a ... -
Comparison of Least-Cost and Least-Pollution Equipment Fleet Configurations Using Computer Simulation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)Construction vehicles and equipment, like all other fuel-powered vehicles, contribute to air pollutant emissions, such as nitrogen oxides (