Adoption of E businessin Indian Construction industry: Conceptual framework

Abstract

The advancement in technology has provided a great platform in organizations with the use of web-based applications. E-business plays a vital role in business transactions in construction industry. Using this technology, construction sector that is fragmented in nature consisting of customers, contractors, suppliers, consultants, government authorities can be effectively coordinated. The purpose of this paper is to developa conceptual model to measure the performance of a firm that adopts e-business applications.

Influence of supply chain resilience, information technology capabilities and agility on cost and delivery performance in construction supply chains: an Indian perspective

“…The second control variable used in the study is the type of work specialisation. The type of work specialisation influences the implementation of SCM practises in a company and, therefore, impacts SCP (Cherian et al. , 2019).…”

“…The first control variable considered is the company's size. The smaller the size of the company, the fewer the resources for the implementation of SCM practises (Cao and Qingyu, 2011;Cherian et al, 2019). The turnover of the company measured the size of the company.…”

“…This has resulted in poor SCP in the construction industry. Under these circumstances, the organisations have taken some initiatives to improve supply chain performance (SCP), such as supply chain structure, information sharing, inventory control, lead time, customer demand, forecasting techniques (George and Pillai, 2019), and usage of e-business technologies (Cherian et al. , 2019).…”

The Development of Business Model of New Construction Machinery Industry Integrating Information Technology

“…Company A set up such an organizational structure as Figure 1 mainly has these characteristics. One is that the management level is simple, the responsibilities of each functional department are clear, and the management authority is relatively centralized, which improves the flexibility of management, strengthens the speed of response to the market, and facilitates the general manager to coordinate and command the deployment of resources [15]. Second, from the perspective of the company's overall organizational structure, the division of responsibilities of each position in management according to the principle of centralized leadership of similar boards is conducive to coordination within the system [16].…”