1st Edition

Construction Supply Chain Economics

By Kerry London Copyright 2008
480 Pages
by Routledge

480 Pages
by Routledge

This is the first comprehensive investigation of the industrial sourcing and procurement practices throughout sixty-eight construction industry supply channels across seven major commodity sectors at all levels. London presents real-world case studies to combine theory and practice to describe the economic structural and behavioural characteristics of sectors integral to the construction... Read more
1. Introduction to Supply Chain Economics and Procurement  2. The Rationale for the Modelling of Procurement in the Construction Supply Chain  3. Supply Chain Theory and Models  4. Industrial Organization Economics Methodology and Supply Chain Industrial Organization Approaches  5. Project-Oriented Industrial Organization Economics Supply Chain Procurement Model  6. Multiple Project Environment Chain Structural Organization  7. Case Study: Complex Core Commodity Supply Chain – Facade Chain Cluster  8. Case Study: Simple and Complex Core and Non Core Supply Chain – Steel Chain Cluster  9. Case Studies: Simple and Complex Core Commodity Supply Chains – Mechanical Services, Formwork, Concrete and Masonry  10. Conclusions and Future Directions: Supply Chain Specialization and Integration Blueprint

Biography

Kerry London is an Associate Professor in the School of Architecture and Built Environment in the Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment at the University of Newcastle, Australia.

"...opens the mind to development opportunities for the future."

-- David Gibson, Building Engineer magazine