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General contractors' relationships with subcontractors: A strategic asset

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  • Serdar Kale
  • David Arditi

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The general contractor-subcontractor relationship has been a focus of interest in the literature and yet its impact on a general contractor's economic performance remains a virtually unexplored area in the construction management literature. This research presents the findings of a questionnaire survey administered to 500 large US general contractors to explore this issue. The findings reveal that maintaining a relationship of high quality with subcontractors is positively and strongly associated with the perceived performance of general contractors responding to the survey.

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  • Serdar Kale & David Arditi, 2001. "General contractors' relationships with subcontractors: A strategic asset," Construction Management and Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 19(5), pages 541-549.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:conmgt:v:19:y:2001:i:5:p:541-549
    DOI: 10.1080/01446193.2001.9709630
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    1. Söderholm, Patrik, 2023. "How environmental permitting uncertainty in large-scale mining could influence subcontractors: The underlying chicken-and-egg problem," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 82(C).

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