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- Bröchner, Jan, 1948, et al.
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Cross-border post-acquisition knowledge transfer among construction consultants
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Ingår i: Construction Management and Economics. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1466-433X .- 0144-6193. ; 22:4, s. 421-427
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Mergers and acquisitions among engineering consulting firms and other professional service organizations occur frequently. International acquisitions should pose challenges because of corporate and national barriers of culture. The purpose here has been to study the relative influences of technical and cultural heterogeneity on knowledge transfer in a post-merger situation where offices in two countries are involved. In 2001, the UK-based WSP Group - providing management and consultancy services to the property, land and construction sectors - acquired J&W, a leading engineering consultancy firm in Sweden. Two technical disciplines, rail and contaminated land, were selected for this survey. Four offices, two in each country, participated with eight consultants in each place. The survey shows occasional, two-way knowledge exchange taking place 16 months after acquisition. Face-to-face meetings, e-mail and technical business gatherings are perceived as the best transfer mechanisms. The presence of knowledgeable customers differs between disciplines and seems to explain differences between transfer patterns. Among metrics for knowledge transfer, the number of international joint projects is assigned the highest rank. Consequences for the choice of organization of knowledge transfer, as well as the measurement and communication of progress in knowledge transfer, are identified.
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- Waara, Fredrik, 1977, et al.
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Multicriteria contractor selection in practice
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Ingår i: Proceedings CIB W92 International Symposium on Procurement Systems, Las Vegas, 8-10 February 2005. - 1889857297 ; 1, s. 167-172
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Public clients increasingly use multiple criteria instead of lowest price when awarding construction contracts. This investigation gives a clear picture of how municipalities identify new award criteria and assign weights to these when abandoning the traditional lowest bid-criterion. Bidding documents from a sample of 386 Swedish municipal construction contracts procured in 2003 have been analyzed. Result show that public owners in the sample used the lowest bid criterion for 19 per cent of their contract awards. The average price weight was 65 percent and these owners used three award criteria on average. Some bidding documents provide thorough descriptions of post-bid evaluation procedures while others give little information on how bids are to be evaluated. The development of advanced contract award criteria in the public sector, as presented here for the first time, will provide incentives for contractors to improve their skills and internal routines, thus increasing efficiency and quality in the construction sector.
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