The complexity of the nature of construction makes it one of the most adverse businesses that has\r\never existed. Construction projects have often suffered from high fragmentation, large waste, poor\r\nproductivity, cost and time overruns, and conflicts and disputes for a long time. Thus, many new\r\nand innovative management and procurement systems in construction are introduced such as\r\npartnering, joint venture, alliances, supply chain management, enterprise resource planning (ERP),\r\njust in time (JIT), and total quality management (TQM) to meet these challenges. However, these\r\nconstruction management and procurement systems are meaningless without coordination, a vital\r\nmanagerial principle and activity, which provides the best cooperation among team members.\r\nAlthough coordination plays crucial functions throughout the building process especially during the\r\ndesign and construction stages, some failures in construction projects adopting coordination\r\nprinciples are still observed. Hence, a study is carried out to investigate the key barriers of\r\ncoordination in construction project. Through the literature review, five groups of key barriers are\r\nestablished in this paper, including the nature of construction, traditional contractual arrangement,\r\nconstruction participants, characteristic of organization and construction management approach.\r\nThe investigation of these key barriers is expected to assist the construction players in coordinating\r\ntheir projects towards a better implementation of the innovative management and procurement\r\nsystems. Lastly, worthwhile new research topics are suggested by this paper in developing the\r\ncoordination key performance indicator (KPI) and critical success factor on construction project for\r\nfurther studies.
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