The effect of experience on contractors' competitiveness in recurrent bidding

Construction Management and Economics

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 655-666

  Fu, W K ^a   Drew, Derek S ^a   Lo, H P ^b  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Bidding; Competitiveness; Experience; Organizational learning

Indexed keywords

CONTRACTS; CORRELATION METHODS;

BIDDING COMPETITIVENESS; RECURRENT BIDDING;

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY;

COMPETITIVENESS; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; LEARNING;

EID: 9144238845     PISSN: 01446193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0144619022000014060     Document Type: Review

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