Causes of payment delays and losses in the construction industry
| aut.researcher | Rotimi, James Olabode Bamidele | |
| dc.contributor.author | Ramachandra, T | |
| dc.contributor.author | Rotimi, JOB | |
| dc.contributor.author | Hyde, K | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-03-18T22:56:54Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2015-03-18T22:56:54Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 2015 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Payment delays and losses persist in the construction industry and continue to be a key concern to industry practitioners. Therefore an exploration of the key causes of payment delays and losses is undertaken in this study with the ultimate objective of seeking mitigating solutions. The study adopted a survey approach using an online questionnaire, administered to practitioners from the New Zealand construction industry, comprising consultants, head contractors and subcontractors. The data obtained was analysed using inferential statistical techniques, including comparing means and factor analysis. Factor analysis enabled clustering of the inter-related causes of payment delays and losses in order to find reduced number of causes. Accordingly, the study found that payment problems mainly relate to contractual issues, financial strength of industry players, disputes, short-comings of payment processes and ‘domino effects’. Among them, the financial strength of critical industry players was considered central to payment problems. The study concludes that any solution to these problems must address these primary causes, as a rational starting point. Thus procuring a feasible form of financial security at the outset of a project, and the pre-qualification of the financial status of critical project participants, were found to be significant in the mitigation of construction payment risks. | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Construction Economics and Building, 15(1), 43-55. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/ajceb.v15i1.4214 | |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.5130/ajceb.v15i1.4214 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1835-6354 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10292/8507 | |
| dc.publisher | UTS ePress | |
| dc.rights | Construction Economics and Building 2015. © 2015 Thanuja Ramachandra and James Olabode Bamidele Rotimi. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported (CC BY 4.0) License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), allowing third parties to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and to remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially, provided the original work is properly cited and states its license. | |
| dc.rights.accessrights | OpenAccess | |
| dc.subject | Payment problems | |
| dc.subject | Causal factors | |
| dc.subject | Factor analysis | |
| dc.subject | Construction | |
| dc.subject | New Zealand | |
| dc.title | Causes of payment delays and losses in the construction industry | |
| dc.type | Journal Article | |
| pubs.elements-id | 134366 | |
| pubs.organisational-data | /AUT | |
| pubs.organisational-data | /AUT/Design & Creative Technologies | |
| pubs.organisational-data | /AUT/Design & Creative Technologies/School of Engineering |