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“Sustainability; A New Element of Project Success” “From whose point of view is Velodrome Park and Wind Turbine projects considered a success or failure?”
Kaysi, Serhat - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
There are plenty of reasons why a project to fail. While all projects strive to succeed, many of them are either over budget or unable to deliver their objectives and that is the reason almost 90 % of all projects either become restarts or fail. On the other hand, project success is possible and...
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Responsive Regulation: Achieving the Right Balance Between Persuasion and Penalisation
Ojo, Marianne - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
regulation and particularly meta regulation to address these challenges. It explores developments which have necessitated a … change from the traditional form of regulation, that is, command and control regulation to more responsive hybrids of … regulation. Even though traditional regulation has its advantages, its inability to address the demands of changing business …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621252
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Services procurement under the WTO’s agreement on government procurement: whither market access?
Shingal, Anirudh - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper studies the government procurement of services from foreign suppliers by conducting a statistical analysis of data submitted by Japan and Switzerland to the WTO's Committee on Government Procurement. Using several metrics, the paper examines whether the WTO’s Agreement on Government...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009251548
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Is Collusion Proof Auction Expensive? Estimates from Highway Procurements
Aryal, Gaurab; Gabrielli, Maria F. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Collusion in auctions affects both revenue and efficiency and are prevalent. Yet, sellers do not use collusion-proof auctions as often as they should. Why is that? We find that one reason for this could be the cost of implementing efficient collusion-proof auctions. We use California highway...
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Concrete roads in Poland: The case for selling non-mainstream infrastructure technologies
Senderski, Marcin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The paper illustrates, on the grounds of Poland’s case, the concrete roads network development in a jurisdiction dominated by asphalt roads. The author reviews typical drawbacks apparent when promoting concrete roads, and identifies several most arresting phenomena that have led to the current...
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Local public procurement: how to deal with a creative bidder? A case study from the Netherlands
Hoek, M. Peter van der - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper presents an analysis of the procurement of transportation services for the disabled by the town of Ridderkerk. The method used consisted of a study of the town’s files and interviews with 11 persons involved. The tender specifications were peculiar in that they required bidders to...
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The performance of local government in the execution of public works
Guccio, Calogero; Pignataro, Giacomo; Rizzo, Ilde - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper aims at analysing the procurement of public works paying attention to the level of government involved. Such an issue has not received so far attention in the literature on fiscal federalism nor in the public works procurement literature. We focus the attention upon the execution...
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Interaction Between The Economic Growth and the Construction Industry: A Time Series Analysis on Turkey (2000-2012)
KARGI, Bilal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
In this study the relation between the economic growth and the construction industry has been tackled. While the growth the rate of the construction industry in the developing countries is more than the GDP growth rate, it is detected that the percent age it takes in the GDP of developed...
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Security of payment in Malaysian construction industry: issues on sub-contract's direct payment
Supardi, Azizan; Adnan, Hamimah - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
In Malaysia, sub-contractors have to bear with the current structure of payment mechanisms in the standard forms of contract, which are payment upon certification, direct payment from the employer, and contingent or conditional payment. However, „direct payment‟ provision is applied for in...
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Contractors’ Strategic Approaches to Risk Assessment Techniques at Project Planning Stage
Ahmad Zaini, Afzan; Endut, Intan Rohani; Takim, Roshana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Abstract — The construction industry is still plagued by poor quality, poor workmanship, poor safety and health environment, and poor practices. The current main problem in the Malaysian Construction Industry is delayed projects under the Ninth Malaysia Plan. The idea of introducing formal...
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