Literature review on domestic subcontractor selection in the Malaysian construction industry
Subcontracting is a long-established practice in the construction industry to capitalize on the skills of trade specialists and to cope with the fluctuating construction demand. The main contractors relying so much on subcontractors to perform portion of works in construction projects that their per...
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| author | Abdul Aziz, Nur 'Izzati Hasan, Sharina Farihah Abdul Rashid, Khairuddin |
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| description | Subcontracting is a long-established practice in the construction industry to capitalize on the skills of trade specialists and to cope with the fluctuating construction demand. The main contractors relying so much on subcontractors to perform portion of works in construction projects that their performance may have significant effects to the overall construction project. Some past studies have highlighted common criteria in subcontractor selection. However, in order to fulfill the current needs of the industry, new list of criteria need to be identified. This paper aims to report an on-going study on domestic subcontractor selection in the Malaysian construction industry for private sector. Through literature review, it was found that bid price, financial status, adequacy of resources, experience in similar works, current commitment/workload, etc. are among the common criteria in subcontractor selection and some additional potential criteria such as sustainable construction, international standards and ethical business behavior worth to be considered. |
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| spelling | iium-495132025-07-17T06:47:04Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/49513/ Literature review on domestic subcontractor selection in the Malaysian construction industry Abdul Aziz, Nur 'Izzati Hasan, Sharina Farihah Abdul Rashid, Khairuddin T Technology (General) TH Building construction Subcontracting is a long-established practice in the construction industry to capitalize on the skills of trade specialists and to cope with the fluctuating construction demand. The main contractors relying so much on subcontractors to perform portion of works in construction projects that their performance may have significant effects to the overall construction project. Some past studies have highlighted common criteria in subcontractor selection. However, in order to fulfill the current needs of the industry, new list of criteria need to be identified. This paper aims to report an on-going study on domestic subcontractor selection in the Malaysian construction industry for private sector. Through literature review, it was found that bid price, financial status, adequacy of resources, experience in similar works, current commitment/workload, etc. are among the common criteria in subcontractor selection and some additional potential criteria such as sustainable construction, international standards and ethical business behavior worth to be considered. 2015 Proceeding Paper NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/49513/1/Paper_M1513_-_Izzati.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/49513/8/49513.pdf Abdul Aziz, Nur 'Izzati and Hasan, Sharina Farihah and Abdul Rashid, Khairuddin (2015) Literature review on domestic subcontractor selection in the Malaysian construction industry. In: 14th Management in Construction Researchers' Association (MiCRA) 2015, 12th-13th Nov. 2015, Kuala Lumpur. https://micra14.wordpress.com/ |
| spellingShingle | T Technology (General) TH Building construction Abdul Aziz, Nur 'Izzati Hasan, Sharina Farihah Abdul Rashid, Khairuddin Literature review on domestic subcontractor selection in the Malaysian construction industry |
| title | Literature review on domestic subcontractor selection in the Malaysian construction industry |
| title_full | Literature review on domestic subcontractor selection in the Malaysian construction industry |
| title_fullStr | Literature review on domestic subcontractor selection in the Malaysian construction industry |
| title_full_unstemmed | Literature review on domestic subcontractor selection in the Malaysian construction industry |
| title_short | Literature review on domestic subcontractor selection in the Malaysian construction industry |
| title_sort | literature review on domestic subcontractor selection in the malaysian construction industry |
| topic | T Technology (General) TH Building construction |
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