COLLABORATION IN INTEGRATED PROJECT DELIVERY: THE EFFECT OF TRUST BASED ON THE PERSPECTIVE OF SOCIAL CAPITAL

摘要

In Integrated project delivery (IPD), collaboration is the key performance indicator to measure its success and it is influenced by partner's trust. Thus, this study aims to explore the relationship between trust and collaboration. In order to quantify trust mechanism, we adopt a novel perspective-social capital. From this perspective, we divide trust into four dimensions-performance, permeability, relationship bonding and system-based trust. With data collected from questionnaires that were sent to scholars and firm's managers, the relationship is tested and verified by structural equation model. This result indicates that trust is positive associated with collaboration. The finding of this study perfects collaboration theory and provides suggestion for IPD project management practice.