Abstract
An enormous amount of investment has been spent towards informatization for the construction industrialization engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) enterprises in China; however, the performance output remains uncertain. This paper aims to evaluate the informatization performance of the construction industrialization enterprises in China based on a proposed evaluation framework. The proposed framework entails a hierarchical input and output structure; the input metrics include 4 first-level and 17 second-level indicators, and the outputs include 6 first-level and 27 second-level indicators as the metrics, respectively. Survey and interview are utilized to collect data, with effective responses from thirty construction industrialization EPC enterprises. The informatization performance of these enterprises is evaluated using an improved D-FCA method, which incorporates the analytic hierarchy process (AHP), data envelopment analysis (DEA), and fuzzy comprehensive evaluation analysis (FCA). The research results indicate that all the surveyed enterprises meet the performance requirement, and 60% of the thirty enterprises show excellent performance, reaching A level, AA level, and AAA level. Furthermore, for those enterprises with DEA scores less than 1, which indicates inefficient use of the resources during the informatization process, strategies are proposed to improve the performance of these enterprises. This study contributes a comprehensive framework to evaluate the informatization performance of construction industrialization enterprises in China. The enterprises studied currently mainly come from some developed areas, and the overall situation for construction industrialization needs to be further studied in future research.
Highlights
Introduction e construction industry inChina has been growing at a tremendous rate in recent years [1]
Analysis of these data can objectively determine the level of enterprise informatization performance evaluation and define the issues confronted by the enterprise
It can be observed that among all the 30 enterprises are qualified, and the proportion of information construction at the A level or above accounted for 60%, of which 83.3% accounted for the industry-leading enterprise information level. is is because construction industrialization is in the initial stage [63], and informatization construction in the early stage has played a positive role in promoting such enterprises [64]
Summary
It can be concluded that the most research on enterprise informalization evaluation focuses on the ERP system, not the whole level of the enterprise; a specific evaluation for informatization performance of the construction industrialization EPC enterprises is lacking. Other commonly used evaluation methods include AHP, economic value added (EVA), data envelopment analysis (DEA), and probability statistics (PS) [19] These methods have been used successfully in some researches, some limitations still existed for a comprehensive evaluation of enterprise informalization, such as a higher requirement for much more data and limited to the decision-making of real-world enterprise informatization [49]. Based on the characteristics of the construction industrialization EPC enterprise, a series of methods are used to select the indexes, including reviewing related literature, performing frequency statistics, field surveys, and expert consultation.
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