Abstract Various indicators are used to determine the level of company diversification. Their adequacy largely depends on structure production programme. Its essential feature is comparative weight main product in total scope company’s work. In this situation, intensity diversification process reflected by decrease volume due inclusion new products case, indicator can be comparing scale with ch...

The focus of knowledge management (KM) in the construction industry is moving towards capability building for value creation. The study reported by this paper is motivated by recent assertions about the genesis and evolution of knowledge management capability (KMC) in the strategic management field. It attempts to shed light on the governance of learning mechanisms that develop KMC within the c...

One of the biggest problems is that private contractors have not stepped up to the plate to become “Apprenticeship Trainers.” According to BAS information, only 475 companies employed construction trade apprentices in the Milwaukee area in the fall of 2005. These companies are listed alphabetically, with the number of apprentices employed by each broken down by racial/ethnic categories in the a...

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is one of the best strategies that companies used in minimising negative societal and environmental impacts, enhancing economic development improving social progress concurrently. However, there are many factors discouraging construction to implement or establish a CSR plan. Furthermore, few empirical studies relation construction, majority research on impl...

On the border of two phases a building life cycle (LC), programming phase (conception and design) execution phase, contractor is selected. A particularly appropriate method selecting for construction market tendering system. It usually based on quality price criteria. The latter may involve (namely, direct costs connected with works realization as well mark-ups, mainly overhead profit) or cost ...

Operations in construction and real estate sector are increasingly networked. Practically this appears as a very high share of subcontracting, and recently the outsourcing as a lasting trend has even strengthened this phenomenon. In a major construction project the project manager and the company (s)he is representing can be connected to tens or even several hundred different partners who each ...