This study aims to explore how culture influences contractors' risk management.
"It's pretty big when you have one person who can dictate where ships are going to go and being influenced by a contractor," said retired Rear Admiral Terry McKnight, who has no direct knowledge of the investigation.
In addition, building design is a multi-collaborator discipline, where design decisions are influenced by architects, engineers, contractors, and building owners.
The results show that Hong Kong contractors are more influenced by market conditions in their decision to bid than Singapore contractors and this influence is independent of the intensity of competition.
But the message they sent was loud and clear: The council majority does not want you, the taxpayer who foots the bill, to know how lobbyists, campaign contributors and private contractors influence the decisions the council makes about your community.
Even the selection of engineering-procurement-construction (EPC) contractors is largely influenced by cost and schedule.
When American advisors arrived in 1954, they encountered not only a deeply embedded insurgency with major bases in the area but also war-damaged infrastructure and engineering agencies and private contractors still deeply influenced by colonial arrangements.
And never mind that U.S. forces (both the military and the private contractors) are strongly influenced by a certain kind of fervent Christian evangelicalism that defines the American enemy as the "infidel" -- the Muslim monster unleashed.
I. F. Stone recognized the corrosive impact of lucrative deals for these outfits, and Jeremy Scahill has shown that the role and influence of contractors are even greater now than they were in Vietnam.
Thus, some portion of the 41%% of survey respondents who had worked with private contractors may have been influenced by, or influenced, other private owners, an indirect form of cooperation.
Among their concerns: that TransCanada may have "improperly influenced" the selection of Cardno Entrix as the contractor for State's environmental assessment.
