The Construction Industry

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Construction industry has long been criticized for its poor performance. After major reports such as Latham (1994) and Egan (1998), major studies are carried out in different procurement routes, management system and technique and construction method. Beyond these, it has been suggested, that ‘softer’ factors such as organisational culture also have a significant impact on performance (Nicolini, 2002). The concept of organisation culture is a popular part of general management since early 1980s. But in construction industry with its project based environment, innovative procurement and business practices such as partnering, lean construction and internationalisation of procurement, potential impact of culture even more pronounced than in any other industry (Hall, 1999).

Although, issue of organisational culture utilised by the construction industry as a “black box” reason for blaming most of the industry’s ills for which other reasons cannot be adduced (Fellows and Seymour, 2002). However, various published research papers and reports on suggest that that there is need for cultu...

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