Resource based view in the Turkish construction sector and resource selection with ANP technique

Abstract

The competitive environment observed in the international construction sector has reflected in the Turkish construction sector through joint projects. In order to achieve competitive advantage in joint construction projects and to achieve success against national competitors, it is necessary to review resource selection strategies. In this context, the main purpose of this study is to look at the resource selection criteria of the construction companies in terms of International Resource-Based Theory. The 77 resources of the construction firms reviewed during this study were evaluated by taking into consideration their ability to be strategic resource and their competitive advantages. In this study, the Building Information Modelling (BIM) tools and technique, which has been spoken as a resource that will benefit competition in Turkey in recent years, was discussed as an objective and the research problem was whether BIM is a strategic resource or not. In the resource evaluation process, resources should be listed and evaluated by firm employees and managers. In the survey conducted for this purpose, construction firms were asked to select the resources they already had from the resource pool of the research and to score only 9 important resources. To establish vertical hierarchy and horizontal relationships, the obtained results of the evaluation were analyzed by using the Analytical Network Process (ANP) method. In the established hierarch, the objective was BIM and the selection criteria were VRIO criteria including Valuable, Rare, Inimitable and Organization, which are the resource selection criteria of the Resource-Based Theory. The scores obtained as a result of the survey study applied to the Turkish construction firms were reflected to the ANP technique. While the data processed with the Super Decisions software provides numerical and quantitative comparisons of resources in the construction sector, it also points to a selected set of resources that can work with BIM.

Keywords

• ANP,Building information,Modelling,Construction sector,Resource based theory,Resource selection

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