The Effects Of Contractual Complexity On Contractor's Cooperative Behavior In Construction Projects

Over the past decade, the construction industry has maintained a good momentum of development, however, the practice of cutting corners in the project, unbalanced quotes, early low bid late claims, does not happen often by engineering design drawings or construction technical standards and other opportunistic behavior, resulting in poor quality of construction, engineering disputes frequently. These problems have seriously undermined the project to participate in cooperative relations between subjects, reducing the efficiency of project implementation, delays in the project implementation schedule, which significantly increases the cost of the project, resulting in an extremely negative impact on the project. Project contractor is inconsistent with the owner's goals, leading contractor in order to pursue their own interests, which will reduce their commitments, and the project is a temporary organization, the subject of the amount of high asset specificity and strong, asymmetric information owners and contractors of serious, can easily lead to these opportunistic behavior. In order to solve problems in engineering practice, scholars have pointed out that one of the non-cooperation project between the main reason for the poor performance of the project participation, cooperation is essential to the success of the project. Therefore, participation in the project to explore ways to promote cooperation between actors is essential to the healthy development of the construction industry, the construction industry is a serious problem..Project contract as a mechanism to promote cooperative behavior contractor, but in existing governance research contract projects, common control functions from contract research perspective, ignoring the contract coordination and adaptation functions. This article explores the complexity and therefore the impact of the contract the contractor cooperative behavior from three functions contract. In addition, due to the dominance of the owner of the project, the contract is often unfair, more and more scholars began to realize the important role of the fairness of the contract, yet few studies on the fairness of the contract the contractor cooperation behavior. Therefore, the project is intended to project for the study, from the control function of the contract, the coordination function, investigate the effect of the complexity of the contract the contractor cooperative behavior adaptation features three areas; and to investigate the fairness of the contract with the contractor the complexity of the contract regulation of the relationship between the provider of cooperative behavior; thereby providing a theoretical basis for the design of the project contract, and further extension of the development project management theory.Based on the systematic analysis and review of the relevant literature on the basis of the construction of the theoretical model proposed corresponding research hypothesis, and empirical research hypotheses. During the study using questionnaires to collect data, and ultimately won the 251 valid questionnaires complete. In this study, statistical analysis software SPSS18.0, the study tested the hypothesis. Hypothesis testing showed thatIn theory, this research has enriched the theoretical system and the scope of the project contract research to broaden the perspective of the research in the field of analysis; also provide a theoretical basis for the practice of project contract arrangements.