2019
DOI: 10.1080/01446193.2018.1542739
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Middle managers’ perceptions of operations strategies at construction contractors

Abstract: Operations strategies focus on how a firm delivers value, while business strategies focus on what to deliver and where. Lean is an operations strategy prioritizing flow efficiency. In construction, empirical underpinning of operations strategies has been limited. The aim is to capture how perceptions of operations strategy in construction practice aligns with existing theories of operations strategy organized in decision categories. Nine in-depth interviews with contractor middle managers were transcribed and … Show more

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“…The system solves the various decision levels such as tactical, operational and strategic. [15] helps to grasp the perception of operations strategy in decisions. Two alternative sets of operations strategies like resources and flow are found.…”
Section: Literature Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The system solves the various decision levels such as tactical, operational and strategic. [15] helps to grasp the perception of operations strategy in decisions. Two alternative sets of operations strategies like resources and flow are found.…”
Section: Literature Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Simu and Lidelöw presented empirical research on the perceptions of middle managers in construction companies on the relationship between operations strategies (e.g., resource-efficient, flow-efficient) and various fields of decision-making, such as standardization, production planning, supply chain, performance measuring, etc. [7]. Although they indirectly refer to several aspects that are affected by the organizational framework wherein decision-making takes place, their analysis lacks any reference, even indirect, to any kind of quantification of these effects.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…It should be noted, though, that the described consultative model is not generous to the degree that it can be generalized to the participatory model [35,36]. • Its strategy will be both innovational and oriented to cost minimization, as aligned with strategy-oriented insights in [4,7,41,42] for firms either explicitly identified as construction companies or largely having characteristics adjacent to the modelling attributes of the exemplar "ideal type" construction firm conceptualized here. The organizational structures will be medium-to-highly concentrated and the degree of control quite strict.…”
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