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Publication date: 1 May 2020

Compliance mediating role within road construction regulatory framework

Noah Mwelu, Peter R. Davis, Yongjian Ke and Susan Watundu

The propose of this study is to focus on the mediating role of compliance with procurement regulatory frameworks in implementing public road construction projects.

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Purpose

The propose of this study is to focus on the mediating role of compliance with procurement regulatory frameworks in implementing public road construction projects.

Design/methodology/approach

A cross-sectional research design was adopted. Structured questionnaires were developed in a three-step process including generating items, purifying measurement items and validating measurement items. Variables were anchored on a five-point Likert scale because it is an efficient unidimensional scale that ensures all items measure the same thing and widely applicable in construction research.

Findings

The findings show that compliance with a public procurement regulatory framework significantly mediates the relationship between familiarity with a public procurement regulatory framework, monitoring activities, sanction on staff and contractors’ resistance to non-compliance and public road construction project success. However, compliance with a public procurement regulatory framework does not mediate the relationship between the professionalism of staff and perceived inefficiency with public road construction projects’ success.

Research limitations/implications

Limited mediation studies and examples in the public road construction subsector affected this study to comprehensively investigate and compare study findings. Furthermore, the study adopted a cross-sectional research design that limits responses to one point in time. Finally, the study missed out other participants in different organizations and departments that could have had relevant information.

Social implications

The study contributes to public procurement and construction management research fields by uncovering this strong mediating role of compliance with a public procurement regulatory framework that collectively would help the government to implement public road construction projects successfully. Because no single factor can reliably attain objectives, blending these factors through a hybrid governance system would enable the government to achieve value for money, increase the quality and quantity of paved roads and save funds that can be channeled to other priority sectors for economic development.

Originality/value

Despite scholarly efforts to establish project success factors, studies have been limited to factors directly impacting the project success without considering a mediating effect among the factors that affect the success of these projects.

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Journal of Public Procurement, vol. 20 no. 3
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/JOPP-12-2018-0052
ISSN: 1535-0118

Keywords

  • Compliance
  • Mediation
  • Public procurement
  • Road construction
  • Regulatory framework

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Publication date: 15 April 2019

Validation of an agent-specific safety climate model for construction

Mohammad Tanvi Newaz, Peter Rex Davis, Marcus Jefferies and Manikam Pillay

Safety climate (SC) is considered a leading indicator of safety performance, but scholars suggest that a common SC assessment framework is yet to be developed. Following…

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Purpose

Safety climate (SC) is considered a leading indicator of safety performance, but scholars suggest that a common SC assessment framework is yet to be developed. Following the debate between the importance of facet analysis and agent analysis, the purpose of this paper is to test a factor structure, developed by the authors in previous work and arising from their systematic literature review, highlighting the role of safety agents in a construction site setting.

Design/methodology/approach

Multi-level SC surveys were conducted at five construction sites in Sydney, Australia, collecting data from of 352 workers associated with a mega-construction project. While examining the factor analysis of different studies, data reliability and data validity of the survey findings were ensured and a goodness-of-fit of SC model was examined through structural equation modelling.

Findings

The systematic literature review of Newaz et al. (2018) suggested a five-factor model of: management commitment, safety system, role of the supervisor, workers’ involvement and group SC. However, empirical data indicated that the questionnaire used to measure “safety system” failed to pass scale reliability; thus, a four-factor model was proposed to develop an agent-specific SC factor structure in the construction industry.

Originality/value

The four-factor model indicates the role and level of influence of different safety agents to improve safety perceptions on construction sites. The findings of this study will encourage researchers in construction safety to use the simplified four-factor SC (agent-specific) model presented and test it to further develop a common factor structure for the construction industry. The fact that the model is comprised of four factors makes further implementation somewhat easier in the development of safety plans, and when considering the role of safety agents, therefore enhancing its potential value.

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Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, vol. 26 no. 3
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/ECAM-01-2018-0003
ISSN: 0969-9988

Keywords

  • Management
  • Construction
  • Questionnaire survey
  • Construction safety

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Publication date: 16 July 2018

Developing a safety climate factor model in construction research and practice: A systematic review identifying future directions for research

Mohammad Tanvi Newaz, Peter Rex Davis, Marcus Jefferies and Manikam Pillay

Safety climate and its impact on safety performance is well established; however, researchers in this field suggest that the absence of a common assessment framework is a…

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Safety climate and its impact on safety performance is well established; however, researchers in this field suggest that the absence of a common assessment framework is a reflection of the state of development of this concept. The purpose of this paper is to propose a five-factor model that can be used to diagnose and measure safety climate in construction safety research and practice.

Design/methodology/approach

A systematic review was adopted, and following Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines, 574 articles were selected at the start of the study based on a developed review protocol for investigating safety climate factors. While examining the factor analysis of different studies, data reliability and data validity of the individual research findings were considered and frequency of factors uploaded was used to determine the significance as a quantitative measure to develop the ranking of safety climate factors.

Findings

The review identified that, from the established measures of safety climate in construction, there is little uniformity on factor importance. However, management commitment safety system role of the supervisor; workers’ involvement and group safety climate were found to be the most common across the studies reviewed. It is proposed these factors are used to inform a five-factor model for investigating safety climate in the construction industry.

Originality/value

The findings of this study will motivate researchers and practitioners in safety to use the five-factor safety climate model presented in this paper and test it to develop a common factor structure for the construction industry. The fact that the model is comprised of five factors makes it easier to be used and implemented by small-to medium-sized construction companies, therefore enhancing its potential use.

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Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, vol. 25 no. 6
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/ECAM-02-2017-0038
ISSN: 0969-9988

Keywords

  • Management
  • Construction
  • Construction site
  • Construction safety

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Publication date: 3 August 2020

Managerial implications for construction practices as a consequence of using a psychological contract of safety

Mohammad Tanvi Newaz, Marcus Jefferies, Peter Rex Davis and Manikam Pillay

Despite many studies that aim to argue, develop and position the concept of psychological contracts, few have explored how a psychological contract may be applied to…

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Purpose

Despite many studies that aim to argue, develop and position the concept of psychological contracts, few have explored how a psychological contract may be applied to safety in the construction industry. A psychological contract of safety (PCS) describes an individual's conceptualized belief that relates to mutual safety obligations, drawn from explicit or implicit promises of associated workers or its supervisor. This study investigates safety practices on construction sites through the lens of the widely applied and researched psychological contract theory emanating from a business paradigm.

Design/methodology/approach

The process of validating a PCS scale within the construction industry required the collection of data from a mega-construction project in Sydney, Australia. A quantitative methodology was used to collect data from 352 construction workers through a survey instrument designed to reveal their perception of procedures, policies and practices. Structural equation modelling (SEM) was used to ensure data reliability and data validity of the survey findings together with goodness of fit of PCS model.

Findings

The findings showed the presence of a PCS in a construction safety setting examined. A two-factor model underlying aspects, namely employer and employee obligations was recommended since the four-factor model, including relational and transactional components of both parties' safety obligations, could not be validated due to the discriminant validity associated with the particular constructs.

Originality/value

Conceptualizing the extant PC theory as a framework from which to leverage safety management initiatives brings a new approach to construction safety studies, revealing the influential role of supervisors in interpreting safety practices. The research aimed to identify safety obligations, which are influential in the development of PSC scale, further the research provides an explanation as to how a PCS may be contextualized in the construction industry.

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Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, vol. ahead-of-print no. ahead-of-print
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/ECAM-02-2020-0119
ISSN: 0969-9988

Keywords

  • Construction safety
  • Psychological contract
  • Scale validation
  • Supervisor
  • Worker

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Publication date: 1 January 2005

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Naresh K. Malhotra

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Review of Marketing Research
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S1548-6435(2004)0000001013
ISBN: 978-0-85724-723-0

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Publication date: 13 September 2018

Australian Regional Waste Footprints*

Jacob Fry, Manfred Lenzen, Damien Giurco and Stefan Pauliuk

The production of waste creates both direct and indirect environmental impacts. A range of strategies are available to reduce the generation of waste by industry and…

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The production of waste creates both direct and indirect environmental impacts. A range of strategies are available to reduce the generation of waste by industry and households, and to select waste treatment approaches that minimise environmental harm. However, evaluating these strategies requires reliable and detailed data on waste production and treatment. Unfortunately, published Australian waste data are typically highly aggregated, published by a variety of entities in different formats and do not form a complete time-series. We demonstrate a technique for constructing a multi-regional waste supply-use (MRWSU) framework for Australia using information from numerous waste data sources. This is the first subnational waste input–output framework to be constructed for Australia. We construct the framework using the Industrial Ecology Virtual Laboratory (IELab), a cloud-hosted computational platform for building Australian multiregional input–output tables. The structure of the framework complies with the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA). We demonstrate the use of the MRWSU framework by calculating waste ‘footprints’ that enumerate the full domestic supply chain waste production for Australian consumers.

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Unmaking Waste in Production and Consumption: Towards the Circular Economy
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78714-619-820181015
ISBN: 978-1-78714-620-4

Keywords

  • Input–output
  • waste
  • environmental foot-printing
  • consumption
  • regional analysis
  • environmental-economic accounting

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Publication date: 11 November 2013

Recovering from the earthquake: Early childhood teachers and children collaboratively telling stories about their experiences

Amanda Bateman and Susan Danby

Traumatic events can cause post-traumatic stress disorder due to the severity of the often unexpected events. The purpose of this paper is to reveal how conversations…

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Traumatic events can cause post-traumatic stress disorder due to the severity of the often unexpected events. The purpose of this paper is to reveal how conversations around lived experiences of traumatic events, such as the Christchurch earthquake in February 2011, can work as a strategy for people to come to terms with their experiences collaboratively. By encouraging young children to recall and tell of their earthquake stories with their early childhood teachers they can begin to respond, renew, and recover (Brown, 2012), and prevent or minimise more stress being developed.

Design/methodology/approach

The study involved collecting data of the participating children taking turns to wear a wireless microphone where their interactions with each other and with teachers were video recorded over one week in November 2011. A total of eight hours and 21 minutes of footage was collected; four minutes and 19 seconds of that footage are presented and analysed in this paper. The footage was watched repeatedly and transcribed using conversation analysis methods (Sacks, 1995).

Findings

Through analysing the detailed turn-taking utterances between teachers and children, the orderliness of the co-production of remembering is revealed to demonstrate that each member orients to being in agreement about what actually happened. These episodes of story telling between the teachers and children demonstrate how the teachers encourage the children to tell about their experiences through actively engaging in conversations with them about the earthquake.

Originality/value

The conversation analysis approach used in this research was found to be useful in investigating aspects of disasters that the participants themselves remember as important and real. This approach offers a unique insight into understanding how the earthquake event was experienced and reflected on by young children and their teachers, and so can inform future policy and provision in post-disaster situations.

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Disaster Prevention and Management, vol. 22 no. 5
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/DPM-10-2013-0177
ISSN: 0965-3562

Keywords

  • Disasters
  • Story telling
  • Christchurch earthquake
  • Conversation analysis
  • Early childhood education

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Publication date: 1 May 1982

The shape of retail trading policies

Peter Davis

Policy is a very individual matter for each company concerned, in Peter Davis' view, hence it is virtually impossible to try to identify other people's trading policies…

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Policy is a very individual matter for each company concerned, in Peter Davis' view, hence it is virtually impossible to try to identify other people's trading policies. What he sets out to do in this paper, therefore, is to examine some factors which are likely to influence policy and then draw some general conclusions. The specific factors he examines are the consumer, the retail trade itself, and the suppliers. This is an edited version of a paper presented by Peter Davis at the IGD 1982 Convention, “Whose Move?”

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Retail and Distribution Management, vol. 10 no. 5
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/eb018157
ISSN: 0307-2363

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Publication date: 1 December 2001

The Governance of Co‐operatives under Competitive Conditions: Issues, Processes and Culture

Peter Davis

Reviews the contemporary debate on governance within the co‐operative sector and makes an analysis of the traditional approach taken by the movement. Critiques the view…

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Reviews the contemporary debate on governance within the co‐operative sector and makes an analysis of the traditional approach taken by the movement. Critiques the view that democratic structures are an effective mechanism for governance in a co‐operative. Process and structure rather than purpose and culture inform the terms of the debate. Argues that professional management is inevitably gaining ground against lay directors. Explores the option of developing professional management as the guardians of co‐operative values and purpose – not to replace democratic governance structures but to support and supplement them using co‐operative value‐based adaptations of modern management methodologies to make consumer co‐operatives more responsive to their customers and members. When people identify with co‐operative purpose and values they will want to be involved. Good governance in co‐operatives is more a problem of management culture than it is a problem of democratic structures.

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Corporate Governance: The international journal of business in society, vol. 1 no. 4
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/EUM0000000005975
ISSN: 1472-0701

Keywords

  • Co‐operatives
  • Values
  • Management
  • Governance
  • Legal matters
  • Efficiency

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Publication date: 1 March 1986

PEOPLE

Stuart Soloway, previously managing director of Shoppers Paradise, has left the food trade and become retail operations director with Burton Retail, part of the Burton…

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Stuart Soloway, previously managing director of Shoppers Paradise, has left the food trade and become retail operations director with Burton Retail, part of the Burton Group. In his new post, in conjunction with two merchandise directors, he is responsible for 350 Burton stores.

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Retail and Distribution Management, vol. 14 no. 3
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/eb018307
ISSN: 0307-2363

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