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dc.contributor.authorNgowi, A.B.
dc.date.accessioned2009-07-03T10:10:04Z
dc.date.available2009-07-03T10:10:04Z
dc.date.issued2001
dc.identifier.citationNgowi, A.B. (2001) The competitive aspect of construction alliances. Logistics information management. Vol.14 No. 4, pp. 242-249en_US
dc.identifier.issn09576053
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10311/344
dc.description.abstractThe primary purpose of forming alliance in the construction industry is to pool together the resources of the participating partners in order to form a team that has a competitive advantage. Each partner in an alliance has its own competence and market share that do not necessarily fall under the alliance as common resources. Therefore, although the competitive advantage aimed at when forming an alliance is for common profits, each partner has a possibility of using it (the competitive advantage) for private profits (i.e. activities that do not fall under the alliance). Using a case study from Botswana, this paper argues that a construction alliances strives as long as the profits created by common activities are substantially higher that the ones that can be created by private activities. Once one of the partners in the alliance can create the competitive advantage in question on its own, it will opt out of the alliance through such mechanisms as withdrawing some of its key contributions to the alliance.en_US
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dc.publisherMCB University Press. http//:www.emerald.library.com/ften_US
dc.subjectAlliancesen_US
dc.subjectcompetitive advantageen_US
dc.subjectconstruction industryen_US
dc.subjectBotswanaen_US
dc.titleCompetition aspect of construction alliancesen_US
dc.typePublished Articleen_US


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