Designing a framework for Sudanese Construction Industry
Keywords:
Project management capabilities, Project performance, organization performanceAbstract
This paper investigates interdependencies between a construction organization’s “resources”, “project management capabilities”, “strategic decisions”, “strength of relationships with other parties” and “external factors” with “project performance” and “organization performance” from a resource based perspective which puts forward intangible assets of the organization. A structural equation model was set up to measure the seven latent variables through their constituent variables and to see if the hypothesized relationships exist. Based on the findings of this study, it can be concluded that, this paper has introduced a method to measure performance both in qualitative and the quantitative terms.
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