IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ids/ijpoma/v8y2016i4p366-395.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Modelling of trust and working relationship in construction project management: a case study of Vietnam

Author

Listed:
  • Nguyen Thanh Tam
  • Bonaventura H.W. Hadikusumo

Abstract

Trust is regarded an essential lubricant to complete the construction project smoothly. However, few attempts to study how trust helps to improve working relationship in construction projects. The objective of this study is to explore the inter-correlations between antecedences and consequences of trust in project management. Quantitative study was conducted to test the hypotheses. The result of analysis revealed that Relational trust arisen by continual interactions between individuals and Calculus-based trust regarding to beneficial issues based on economic exchange were found to have most contribution to generating a harmony working environment in construction projects through facilitating communication, cooperation, negotiation-problem solving, and relationship satisfaction. However, institution-based trust, which is built up on legal system and professional practice, has least impact on improving working relationship. The research findings are expected to be useful for local construction parties and others that wish to engage in construction market in Vietnam.

Suggested Citation

  • Nguyen Thanh Tam & Bonaventura H.W. Hadikusumo, 2016. "Modelling of trust and working relationship in construction project management: a case study of Vietnam," International Journal of Project Organisation and Management, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 8(4), pages 366-395.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijpoma:v:8:y:2016:i:4:p:366-395
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=81676
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ids:ijpoma:v:8:y:2016:i:4:p:366-395. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sarah Parker (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=96 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.