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dc.contributorDepartment of Building and Real Estate-
dc.creatorYang, H-
dc.creatorChan, APC-
dc.creatorYeung, FY-
dc.creatorLi, Q-
dc.date.accessioned2014-12-11T08:23:40Z-
dc.date.available2014-12-11T08:23:40Z-
dc.identifier.issn0733-9364-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10397/5623-
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherAmerican Society of Civil Engineersen_US
dc.rights© 2012 American Society of Civil Engineersen_US
dc.rightsThis is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Journal of Construction Engineering and Management. The open URL of the article: http://ascelibrary.org/doi/abs/10.1061/(ASCE)CO.1943-7862.0000416en_US
dc.subjectConstruction industryen_US
dc.subjectConcentrationen_US
dc.subjectOrganizational ecologyen_US
dc.subjectResource partitioningen_US
dc.subjectEvent history analysisen_US
dc.subjectChinaen_US
dc.titleConcentration effect on construction firms : tests of resource partitioning theory in Jiangsu Province (China) from 1989 to 2007en_US
dc.typeJournal/Magazine Articleen_US
dc.description.otherinformationAuthor name used in this manuscript: John F. Y. Yeungen_US
dc.identifier.spage144-
dc.identifier.epage153-
dc.identifier.volume138-
dc.identifier.issue1-
dc.identifier.doi10.1061/(ASCE)CO.1943-7862.0000416-
dcterms.abstractAlong with the economic acceleration and the consequent flourishing of urban infrastructure and real estate, there has been a tremendous development within the Chinese construction industry. However, the industry continues to suffer from excessive competition and low profit margins. Based on the resource partitioning process of organizational ecology theory, which predicts how market concentration relates to the survival of specialist and generalist organizations, this study analyzes the structure and the structural effect of the Jiangsu construction industry. Using the event history analysis method and data of all companies known to have operated during the period 1989–2007, the survival of both large and small construction companies within this low but increasing concentration industry has been investigated. It is concluded that the increasing concentration of the Jiangsu construction industry has a negative effect on the survival of construction companies. Nevertheless, no resource partitioning process can have occurred because it is found that the effect of concentration on decline for smaller companies is greater than for larger ones, which violates the assumption of the resource partitioning theory. In addition, macroeconomic policies and factors at the firm level have proved significant in relation to the incidence of survival of Jiangsu construction companies. Although this research focused mainly on the major construction companies of one province in China, the result reflects the profile of the whole country to some extent, and the research method could be replicated in other parts of the world for international comparisons. This would assist in understanding the structures of the construction industries in different countries and the structural effect on the survival of different types of firms.-
dcterms.accessRightsopen accessen_US
dcterms.bibliographicCitationJournal of construction engineering and management, Jan. 2012, v. 138, no. 1, p. 144–153-
dcterms.isPartOfJournal of construction engineering and management-
dcterms.issued2012-01-
dc.identifier.isiWOS:000300437700015-
dc.identifier.eissn1943-7862-
dc.identifier.rosgroupidr61614-
dc.description.ros2011-2012 > Academic research: refereed > Publication in refereed journal-
dc.description.oaAccepted Manuscripten_US
dc.identifier.FolderNumberOA_IR/PIRAen_US
dc.description.pubStatusPublisheden_US
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