ABSTRACT
This chapter organizes to classify supplier firms, procurement relationships and supply chains, chain Specialization and Integration Blueprint, firm–firm procurement relationship processes and future research interdisciplinary intersections. This typology of supplier firm is equally applicable at all levels of the construction industry supply chain. This chapter describes the interactions between various entities and assists in describing the behavioural characteristics in supply chain formation. Clearly, the operations for the objects during procurement and the structural organizational maps developed in chapters for the case studies describe much of the structural and behavioural characteristics for construction supply chains. The model proposed that various supply chain classes performance should be measured in terms of profitability, efficiency/productivity and innovation. The development, adoption and diffusion of various technological, organizational, product and process innovations across the industry as a whole can be considered through the supply chain.
