The Study On Governance Structure Of Construction-Agent System Project

Chinese investment in public projects in recent decades has increased greatly, especially for the projects of education, health and other construction projects, as well as public, prosecutors, law, the Secretary and other office facilities projects, investment and construction demand continues to increase. Traditionally, these public projects are invested by the government and regulators, the government is responsible for investment approval, the direct management of project construction, which often results in over-budget, over-standard, over-progress. In order to governaning public construction projects, China launched an Constructon-Agent System(CAS) in2003, the Government commissioned a professional project management company (or Agent Unit) to complete the project management on behalf of the owners.In order to better improve and implement the Construction-Agent System as instruments of governance, it is necessary to study governance rules, therefore, this research proposes three key issues to be resolved as follows:In the current scenario, what are the attributes and characteristics of the agent system project governance? How to divide the governance structure of the agent system project from the nature of the project governance? What are the characteristics of the agent system project governance structure?To solve the above key issues, this research reviewed the literatures on the agent system and project management, using text analysis method to analyse the connotation of the concept of governance, came up the idea of analyzing the agent system project management features proposed to start from the governance activities, and described the governance activity property.The dissertation used a case study approach, in particular, collected the information of agent system project cases of developed coastal areas and the relevant laws and regulations as the research object. The study concludes15governance aspects, collects information of agent system project characteristics and governance activities, encodes the information to build a statistical database, using the SPSS statistical software and multi-option analysis, obtains the findings from the case data.The case study results show that eventually203governance activities are identified in the agent system projects, covering the15governance aspects of study design. On the results of statistical analyzes, the conclusions of identifying the agent system project governance activities from the case study are as follows: Conclusion1:There are most project governance activities in selection of construction agent and construction agent bidding. Selecting agents is the most important object in the agent system project governance. Agent system project governance emphasis on organizational oversight, avoid the "three excesses" through the governance of the use of funds and construction organization and management.Conclusion II:Goverance activities of agent system project related to the construction agent, Development and Reform Commission, and the owners, also related to the finance department, agent in charge of institutions, industry management department, construction management department, audit department.Conclusion III:Governance activities in the agent system project focused on system management, task management, and stakeholder governance, mainly embody two aspects of the "control" and "checks and balances", focusing on the agent system project management process control and guidance.On the basis of case studies to identify the governance activities, starting from the breadth of the governance relationship, the level and depth of three variables, construct the measurement model of the agent system project governance strength, governance strength is defined as the distribution of between0-1value, and is divided into strong, median, weak governance strength.The study found:weak governance structure of the agent system project, includes key stakeholders, such as the Development and Reform Commission, owners and construction agent, and concerns four governance dimensions including the supervision and organization design, agent selection, agent tender activities, applications for funding and the use.Moderate governance structure of the agent system projects is on the basis of weak governance structure, introduces industry management department, finance management department, construction authorities, and construction agent management department, to carry out governance activities in8governance dimensions such as management system construction.Strong governance structure of the Agent System Agent System project is on the basis of moderate governance structure, introduces audit, inspection and other top-level governance body, to carry out governance activities for all15governance dimesions.According to agent system project governance structure for the different strength of governance, based on the governance characteristics of the analysis of governance body, the study found:Weak governance structure of agent system project, the relationship of the Development and Reform Commission and the owners to the construction agent is the main relationship of weak governance, construction agent is only the core of the governance body, stakeholder governance and task governance is the main control of the main content. The dependenance on system design is not strong. Governance activities are mainly through self-governance or market contract governance. Governance activities primarily embody performance checks. Development and Reform Commission and the owners have relations to coordinate the construction agent.Median governance structure of agent system has three core governance body, namely construction agent, owner and supervisor. The top-level governance body is through the owners and supervisor to form a number of indirect control path, in particular, to highlight the important intermediary role of owners. System governance is a top-level governance body content of the primary management of the governed, show that the design of the system the main instruments of governanceis in median governance structure, governance activities mainly embody governed control and coordination, and require the combination of contract governance and institutionalizing governance.In the strong governance structure of Construcion-Agent system projects, construction agent, owner, supervisor, development and Reform Commission, the finance management departments, construction administrative departments and departments in charge of industry are the seven core body. Top management main body is through development and Reform Commission, the finance management departments, construction administrative departments to form a plurality of indirect governance path. Strong management structure of the primary management activities is a system management, emphasizing the contract management, system management and network governance. Strong governance structure on main governed administrative activity of the outstanding performance for the control, coordination and inspection, and with management level transform change.