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Goh, Kai Chen; Yang, Jay - 2011

Highway construction works have significant bearings on all aspects of sustainability. As they typically involve huge capital funds, stakeholders tend to place all interests on the financial justifications of the project, especially when embedding sustainability principles and practices may...

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A comparative review of quantitative VFM methodology for PPP infrastructure project in Indonesia and Australia

Pangeran, Moch Husnullah; Pribadi, Krishna Suryanto; … - 2010

The Government of Indonesia (GoI) increasingly relies on the private sector financing to build and operate … PPP infrastructure project procurement in Indonesia and Australia. Public Sector Comparator (PSC) is used to assess the … potential project VFM quantitatively in Australia. In Indonesia, the PSC has not been applied, where the PPP procurement …

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EduBuilding: material selection from life cycle costing sensitivity

Mat Noor, Noorsidi Aizuddin; Eves, Chris - 2010

Life Cycle Cost Analysis provides a form of synopsis of the initial and consequential costs of building related decisions. These cost figures may be implemented to justify higher investments, for example, in the quality or flexibility of building solutions through a long term cost reduction. The...

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Assessing the value of different business strategies to innovation by firms in the construction industry

Manley, Karen; McFallan, Stephen; Swainston, Mike; … - 2008

This original empirical research was conducted to explore the relationship between business strategies and innovation implementation by project-based firms. The relative importance of five types of business strategies was assessed, concerning: (1) employees, (2) marketing, (3) technology, (4)...

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Factors contributing to successful public private partnership projects : comparing Hong Kong with Australia and the United Kingdom

Cheung, Esther; Chan, Albert; Kajewski, Stephen L. - 2010

Purpose: With the increasing interest in Public Private Partnership (PPP) there is a need to investigate the factors contributing to successful delivery of PPP projects. Design/methodology/approach: An empirical questionnaire survey was conducted in Hong Kong and Australia. The survey...

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The Innovation Management Program (IMP) : A holistic approach to managing change in knowledge based firms

Mian, Daniyal; Weir, Grant; Moreton, Paul; Kajewski, … - 2009

Innovation Management (IM) in most knowledge based firms is used on an adhoc basis where senior managers use this term to leverage competitive edge without understanding its true meaning and how its robust application in organisation impacts organisational performance. There have been attempts...

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Innovation in construction : a case study of the Australian context

Manley, Karen; Kajewski, Stephen L. - 2011

The dominant economic paradigm currently guiding industry policy making in Australia and much of the rest of the world is the neoclassical approach. Although neoclassical theories acknowledge that growth is driven by innovation, such innovation is exogenous to their standard models and hence...

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The determinants of multinational contractors' willingness to bid for Australian public sector major infrastructure projects : towards deploying the eclectic paradigm of internatio...

Rahman, Azmeri; Bridge, Adrian; Rowlinson, Steve - 2010

Against a background of already thin markets in some sectors of major public sector infrastructure in Australia and the desire of Australian federal government to leverage private finance, concerns about ensuring sufficient levels of competition are prompting federal government to seek new...

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The relationship between construction firm strategies and innovation outcomes

Manley, Karen; McFallan, Stephen; Kajewski, Stephen L. - 2009

Survey results provide a preliminary assessment of the relative contribution of a range of tactical business strategies to innovation performance by firms in the Australian construction industry. Over 1,300 firms were surveyed in 2004, resulting in a response rate of 29%. Respondents were...

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The public sector?s perspective on procuring public works projects : comparing the views of practitioners in Hong Kong and Australia

Cheung, Esther; Chan, Albert; Kajewski, Stephen L. - 2010

Hong Kong has been one of the early jurisdictions to adopt Public Private Partnership (PPP) model for delivering large public infrastructure projects. The development of this procurement approach in Hong Kong has followed an intricate path. As such, it is believed that there are a number of...

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