Literature review on domestic subcontractor selection in the Malaysian construction industry

Subcontracting is a long-established practice in the construction industry to capitalize on the skills of trade specialists and to cope with the fluctuating construction demand. The main contractors relying so much on subcontractors to perform portion of works in construction projects that their per...

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Main Authors:	Abdul Aziz, Nur 'Izzati, Hasan, Sharina Farihah, Abdul Rashid, Khairuddin
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English English
Published:	2015
Subjects:	T Technology (General) TH Building construction
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spelling	iium-495132016-05-16T03:26:48Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/49513/ Literature review on domestic subcontractor selection in the Malaysian construction industry Abdul Aziz, Nur 'Izzati Hasan, Sharina Farihah Abdul Rashid, Khairuddin T Technology (General) TH Building construction Subcontracting is a long-established practice in the construction industry to capitalize on the skills of trade specialists and to cope with the fluctuating construction demand. The main contractors relying so much on subcontractors to perform portion of works in construction projects that their performance may have significant effects to the overall construction project. Some past studies have highlighted common criteria in subcontractor selection. However, in order to fulfill the current needs of the industry, new list of criteria need to be identified. This paper aims to report an on-going study on domestic subcontractor selection in the Malaysian construction industry for private sector. Through literature review, it was found that bid price, financial status, adequacy of resources, experience in similar works, current commitment/workload, etc. are among the common criteria in subcontractor selection and some additional potential criteria such as sustainable construction, international standards and ethical business behavior worth to be considered. 2015 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/49513/1/Paper_M1513_-_Izzati.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/49513/8/49513.pdf Abdul Aziz, Nur 'Izzati and Hasan, Sharina Farihah and Abdul Rashid, Khairuddin (2015) Literature review on domestic subcontractor selection in the Malaysian construction industry. In: 14th Management in Construction Researchers' Association (MiCRA) 2015, 12th-13th Nov. 2015, Kuala Lumpur. (Unpublished) https://micra14.wordpress.com/
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spellingShingle	T Technology (General) TH Building construction Abdul Aziz, Nur 'Izzati Hasan, Sharina Farihah Abdul Rashid, Khairuddin Literature review on domestic subcontractor selection in the Malaysian construction industry
description	Subcontracting is a long-established practice in the construction industry to capitalize on the skills of trade specialists and to cope with the fluctuating construction demand. The main contractors relying so much on subcontractors to perform portion of works in construction projects that their performance may have significant effects to the overall construction project. Some past studies have highlighted common criteria in subcontractor selection. However, in order to fulfill the current needs of the industry, new list of criteria need to be identified. This paper aims to report an on-going study on domestic subcontractor selection in the Malaysian construction industry for private sector. Through literature review, it was found that bid price, financial status, adequacy of resources, experience in similar works, current commitment/workload, etc. are among the common criteria in subcontractor selection and some additional potential criteria such as sustainable construction, international standards and ethical business behavior worth to be considered.
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Abdul Aziz, Nur 'Izzati Hasan, Sharina Farihah Abdul Rashid, Khairuddin
author_facet	Abdul Aziz, Nur 'Izzati Hasan, Sharina Farihah Abdul Rashid, Khairuddin
author_sort	Abdul Aziz, Nur 'Izzati
title	Literature review on domestic subcontractor selection in the Malaysian construction industry
title_short	Literature review on domestic subcontractor selection in the Malaysian construction industry
title_full	Literature review on domestic subcontractor selection in the Malaysian construction industry
title_fullStr	Literature review on domestic subcontractor selection in the Malaysian construction industry
title_full_unstemmed	Literature review on domestic subcontractor selection in the Malaysian construction industry
title_sort	literature review on domestic subcontractor selection in the malaysian construction industry
publishDate	2015
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/49513/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/49513/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/49513/1/Paper_M1513_-_Izzati.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/49513/8/49513.pdf
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Literature review on domestic subcontractor selection in the Malaysian construction industry

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