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Research Projects: 002 Institutional Conflict & Costs on Global Projects

Started: 2002
Funding: $850,000 (NSF)
People: Antti Ainamo, Yan Jin, Tapio Koivu, Raymond Levitt, Douglass North, W.Richard Scott, Risto Tainio, Marc Ramsey, Dana Gavrieli, Tamaki Horii, Ashwin Mahalingam, Johanna Nummelin, Ryan Orr, John E. Taylor, Sampo Tukiainen
Purpose:The objective of the research is to understand how institutional differences between the participants of large, complex, global projects lead to misunderstandings, conflicts and costs and to identify how firms that enter global projects can avoid these unanticipated outcomes.

5 Sep 2007: Institutional Complexity, Conflicts, and Costs

For his Ph.D, Christian Brockmann interviewed contractors and consultants on the Taiwan High Speed Rail Project and Bridge and Subway Projects in Bangkok. This page presents the interview transcripts. They are organized by nationality of the contractor/interviewee -- i.e. German, Taiwanese, Korean and other international.

The synopsis of the interviews can be found here.

All Interview transcripts from the Taiwan high speed rail project categorized by the type or nationality of employer of interviewee, are available below.

  • View the transcripts with different clients (TC) as WinRaR files (53 kb)

  • View the transcripts with German contractors (TG) as WinRaR files (220 kb)

  • View the transcripts with Taiwanese contractors (TT) as WinRaR files (131 kb)

  • View the transcripts with Korean contractors (TK) as WinRaR files (76 kb)

  • View the transcripts with Japanese contractors (TJ) as WinRaR files (86 kb)

    All Interview transcripts from the Bridge and Subway Projects in Bangkok categorized by the nationality of interviewee, are available below.

  • View the transcripts with Thai nationalities (BT) as WinRaR files (79 kb)

  • View the transcripts with German nationalities (BG) as WinRaR files (56 kb)

    4 Aug 2006: Pictorial Guide - Institutional Complexity, Conflict & Costs
    A pictorial guide of research conducted under this area is available here: http://crgp.stanford.edu/about/pictorial_guide.html