Incentivizing Collaborative BIM-Enabled Projects: A Synthesis of Agency and Behavioral Approaches

Introduction

Research Background and Significance

In recent years, the construction industry has undergone a transformation from a traditional system emphasizing competition and contract enforcement to a collaborative system that stresses early supplier engagement and collective sharing of risk and reward. The key lesson learned from price-driven procurement practices is that the squeezing of contractors’ markups by competitive tendering could translate into massive costs for contract enforcement and intensify the contractor's proclivity to withhold information and hold up the client during change order negotiations (Chang, 2013b; Chang & Ive, ...