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Strategies and boundaries: Subcontracting in construction

Behlül Üsdiken1; Zeynep Sözen2; Hayat Enbiyaoḡlu1

1 Boğaziçi University · 2 Istanbul Technical University

Strategic Management Journal 1988

Abstract A central concern in studying organization environment relationships has been the issue of how boundaries of organizational activity are defined and altered. A specific organizational response that pertains to the issue of boundaries is subcontracting. Construction is one industry where subcontracting is used extensively. Eccles' (1981a) study shows, however, that there is great variation in the subcontracting practices of contractors. This paper reports an exploratory study on the possible determinants of the extent of subcontracting by the construction firm.

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10.1002/smj.4250090609
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