TY - GEN
T1 - Contractors’ organisational structure elements for controlling project cost in the construction industry
AU - Adjei, Kofi Owusu
AU - Aigbavboa, Clinton Ohis
AU - Thwala, Wellington Didibhuku
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2019.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Setting an organisational structure is a human-based concept that calls for all the elements making construction organisations better in management operations. This paper establishes organisation structure elements for construction project cost control practice by revealing the appropriate constructs for setting organisation structure for controlling and managing construction project cost. This paper employs the Delphi technique approach for collecting data after extracting sixteen (16) constructs from literature. A consensus was reached at the third round. Delphi experts comprised professionals practising in the construction industry. The findings reveal that organisational structure elements assist in controlling and managing of construction cost. High consensus elements include centralisation of authority, number of layers in the formation of corporate structure, patterns of communication, specialisation of members, among others. Contractors and project cost managers can, therefore, use the organisation structure constructs to establish good organisation structure for cost control practice.
AB - Setting an organisational structure is a human-based concept that calls for all the elements making construction organisations better in management operations. This paper establishes organisation structure elements for construction project cost control practice by revealing the appropriate constructs for setting organisation structure for controlling and managing construction project cost. This paper employs the Delphi technique approach for collecting data after extracting sixteen (16) constructs from literature. A consensus was reached at the third round. Delphi experts comprised professionals practising in the construction industry. The findings reveal that organisational structure elements assist in controlling and managing of construction cost. High consensus elements include centralisation of authority, number of layers in the formation of corporate structure, patterns of communication, specialisation of members, among others. Contractors and project cost managers can, therefore, use the organisation structure constructs to establish good organisation structure for cost control practice.
KW - Construction industry
KW - Cost control
KW - Organisational philosophy
KW - Organisational structure
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-94709-9_42
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-94709-9_42
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85049676093
SN - 9783319947082
T3 - Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
SP - 431
EP - 440
BT - Advances in Human Factors, Business Management and Society - Proceedings of the AHFE 2018 International Conference on Human Factors, Business Management and Society, 2018
A2 - Kantola, Jussi Ilari
A2 - Nazir, Salman
A2 - Barath, Tibor
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - AHFE International Conference on Human Factors, Business Management and Society, 2018
Y2 - 21 July 2018 through 25 July 2018
ER -