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Strategies and boundaries: Subcontracting in construction
Author(s) -
Üsdiken Behlül,
Sözen Zeynep,
Enbiyaoḡlu Hayat
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
strategic management journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 11.035
H-Index - 286
eISSN - 1097-0266
pISSN - 0143-2095
DOI - 10.1002/smj.4250090609
Subject(s) - industrial organization , business , exploratory research , marketing , economic geography , operations management , process management , economics , sociology , anthropology
A central concern in studying organization environment relationships has been the issue of how boundaries of organizational activity are defined and altered. A specific organizational response that pertains to the issue of boundaries is subcontracting. Construction is one industry where subcontracting is used extensively. Eccles' (1981a) study shows, however, that there is great variation in the subcontracting practices of contractors. This paper reports an exploratory study on the possible determinants of the extent of subcontracting by the construction firm.