Decision Criteria for Subcontractor Selection in International Construction Projects
Öz
An international construction project executed by poor-quality subcontractors leads mostly to time and cost overruns, reworks, conflicts, and dissatisfaction of customers. Therefore, this paper presents a study of subcontractor selection criteria in international construction projects. Toward this aim, an in-depth survey was administered to 96 construction firms which are members of Turkish Contractors Association. Results were analyzed through the rank ordering method used for eliciting the respondents’ perceived importance. Since assessing preferences by a questionnaire can be employed to assign membership values to a fuzzy variable, fuzzy importance weights as well as their rankings were obtained for subcontractor selection criteria and stages. In this regard, a three-step conceptual selection procedure with their specific criteria was proposed. As a result, as the first stage, shortlisting is composed of ten criteria such as past experience, past performance, formal relationship, financial strength, workload, safety records, reputation, litigation history, personal relationship, and home office location, respectively. The negotiation stage contains seven criteria such as knowledge of project, reliability, selfless attitudes, ability to solve problems, enthusiasm for the project, quality awareness, and level of communication, respectively. Lastly, the final selection stage includes seven criteria such as price, technical personnel, labor, equipment, payment plan, amount of subcontracting, and amount of compensation for delay, respectively. Consequently, this study has a considerable potential to present research and practical implications from the perspective of researchers, industrial practitioners, and contracting organizations in construction.
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Kaynakça
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Ayrıntılar
Birincil Dil
Türkçe
Konular
Mühendislik
Bölüm
Araştırma Makalesi
Yayımlanma Tarihi
27 Aralık 2017
Gönderilme Tarihi
12 Haziran 2017
Kabul Tarihi
12 Ekim 2017
Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 2017 Cilt: 6
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