Perceptions of stakeholders in project procurement for road construction

Planning transport system, building, operating and maintaining public roads and railways is typically performed by public institutions in collaboration with other stakeholders, such as manufacturers, suppliers and distributors. In many cases, this collaboration is done with a procurement process. De...

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Autores principales: Maksims Kornevs, Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge, Sebastiaan Meijer
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:2fd93bf82aa4403b8824212dbc920e472021-12-02T14:07:32ZPerceptions of stakeholders in project procurement for road construction2331-197510.1080/23311975.2018.1520447https://doaj.org/article/2fd93bf82aa4403b8824212dbc920e472018-01-01T00:00:00Zhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23311975.2018.1520447https://doaj.org/toc/2331-1975Planning transport system, building, operating and maintaining public roads and railways is typically performed by public institutions in collaboration with other stakeholders, such as manufacturers, suppliers and distributors. In many cases, this collaboration is done with a procurement process. Despite the formal nature of such process, stakeholders can have different worldviews or perceptions leading to adverse effects on the final procurement result. This article is focused on how to find perceptions of stakeholders related to roadwork-related procurement processes using Q methodology. This methodology uses data from the stakeholders and searches for factors or groups within the data of participants who have similar opinions. A specific case of road procurement in Sweden is used to test the methodology. As a result, three clusters of perceptions are found. These clusters and their interpretation can be applied to many tasks that are related to complex adaptive systems such as policy-making, strategy generation, solution testing, training and others.Maksims KornevsJannicke Baalsrud HaugeSebastiaan MeijerTaylor & Francis Grouparticleproject sector procurementq methodologycomplex systemsroad constructionBusinessHF5001-6182Management. Industrial managementHD28-70ENCogent Business & Management, Vol 5, Iss 1 (2018)
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topic project sector procurement
q methodology
complex systems
road construction
Business
HF5001-6182
Management. Industrial management
HD28-70
spellingShingle project sector procurement
q methodology
complex systems
road construction
Business
HF5001-6182
Management. Industrial management
HD28-70
Maksims Kornevs
Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge
Sebastiaan Meijer
Perceptions of stakeholders in project procurement for road construction
description Planning transport system, building, operating and maintaining public roads and railways is typically performed by public institutions in collaboration with other stakeholders, such as manufacturers, suppliers and distributors. In many cases, this collaboration is done with a procurement process. Despite the formal nature of such process, stakeholders can have different worldviews or perceptions leading to adverse effects on the final procurement result. This article is focused on how to find perceptions of stakeholders related to roadwork-related procurement processes using Q methodology. This methodology uses data from the stakeholders and searches for factors or groups within the data of participants who have similar opinions. A specific case of road procurement in Sweden is used to test the methodology. As a result, three clusters of perceptions are found. These clusters and their interpretation can be applied to many tasks that are related to complex adaptive systems such as policy-making, strategy generation, solution testing, training and others.
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author Maksims Kornevs
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title Perceptions of stakeholders in project procurement for road construction
title_short Perceptions of stakeholders in project procurement for road construction
title_full Perceptions of stakeholders in project procurement for road construction
title_fullStr Perceptions of stakeholders in project procurement for road construction
title_full_unstemmed Perceptions of stakeholders in project procurement for road construction
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