Abstract

Purpose: Within project-based supply chain inter-organizational cooperative innovation, the achievement of project value-adding reflects by factors such as project-based organizational effect level, the relationship between project cooperative innovation objectives etc. The purpose is to provide a reliable reference for the contractor reasonably allocate the effect level and resources between the knowledge input and innovation stage and realize the knowledge collaboration for project-based supply chain. Design/methodology/approach: Based on the assumption of equal cooperation between project-based organizations, from the view of maximizing project value-adding and the relationship of effect cost between knowledge input and innovation stage in consideration, the knowledge collaborative incentive model for project-based supply chain inter-organizational cooperative innovation was established, and solved through the first-order and second-order approach, then the digital simulation and example analysis were presented. Findings: The results show that, the project management enterprise resorted to adjust project knowledge collaboration incentive intensity and implemented knowledge input-innovation coordinative incentive strategy, not only could achieve project value-adding maximization, but also could realize net earnings Pareto improvement between project management enterprise and contractor. Research limitations/implications: To simplify the knowledge flow among project-based organizations, the knowledge flow in the model hypothesis is presented as knowledge input and knowledge innovation stage, thus it may affect the final analysis results. Originality/value: In construction project practice, knowledge is become more and more important to achieve project value-adding. The research can provide a theoretical guideline for the project-based organizations, such as the contractor, the owner, especially how to utilize their core knowledge.

Highlights

  • Construction industry is an information and knowledge driving based business line Construction firms all over the world are increasingly being challenged by the pressure of high-cost, over schedule project and continuous growth competition

  • Cooperation is necessary for achieving the continuous exchange of the organizational knowledge flow; the cooperation among project-based organizations lays the foundation of knowledge innovation

  • Considering the alternative of effort-cost between knowledge investment and knowledge innovation, this paper examined the effects of inter-organizational knowledge collaboration on project values adding by means of adjusting the incentive intensity in the process of knowledge investment and knowledge innovation as coordinating method

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Summary

Introduction

Construction industry is an information and knowledge driving based business line Construction firms all over the world are increasingly being challenged by the pressure of high-cost, over schedule project and continuous growth competition. The collaborative innovation of project-based supply chain is a management mode where all project participators organized by the cooperation contract to balance interests of all parties, identify project objectives, establish perfect coordination and communication mechanisms and realize reasonable risk-sharing and amicable settlement of disputes (Fariborz, Fatemeh & Maryam, 2011). Despite the challenge, considering the significant role of knowledge for project success, more and more project-based organizations expect to draw the support of the outer resources so as to enhance their capability of converting collaborative knowledge into core competence (Sammaddar, 2006) In regard to this problem, this paper employs the work of Mohamed and Anumba (2010) and introduces the concept of knowledge flow into project-based supply chains. Considering the alternative of effort-cost between knowledge investment and knowledge innovation, this paper examined the effects of inter-organizational knowledge collaboration on project values adding by means of adjusting the incentive intensity in the process of knowledge investment and knowledge innovation as coordinating method

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