IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/sprchp/978-3-662-43871-8_174.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Technology Transfer in Construction Engineering Joint Venture Projects—The Case of South Africa

In: Liss 2014

Author

Listed:
  • P. D. Rwelamila

    (University of South Africa)

  • S. Mkandawire

    (Group Five (Pty) Ltd.)

Abstract

Construction Engineering Joint Venture (CEJV) projects are believed to be beneficial with regard to aiding technology transfer in the local construction industry, but still debatable whether such skills and technology transfer effectively occur in the hosting companies in developing economies. Substantial research on technology and skills transfer from an industrialized country companies to developing counterparts reveals worrying trends. South African construction companies are therefore not immune from these undesirable trends. Three main issues are dealt with in this paper: if foreign partnering company has knowledge and technology that the local partner is lacking; how Construction Engineering Joint Venture projects are structured at delivery stage; and key strategic elements of expertise transfer in Construction Engineering Joint Venture project relating to structure. The paper identifies, analyzes and interprets the critical success factors for speedy transfer of expertise and technology and proposes a conceptual project delivery structure that can accelerate the transfer of expertise.

Suggested Citation

  • P. D. Rwelamila & S. Mkandawire, 2015. "Technology Transfer in Construction Engineering Joint Venture Projects—The Case of South Africa," Springer Books, in: Zhenji Zhang & Zuojun Max Shen & Juliang Zhang & Runtong Zhang (ed.), Liss 2014, edition 127, pages 1203-1208, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-662-43871-8_174
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-43871-8_174
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-662-43871-8_174. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.