Mengenal Bidang Ekonomi Konstruksi

Conceptualizing the economic logic of the construction industry is a complex undertaking, primarily because the industry itself is complex, with a high degree of differentiation and interdependencies between the tasks, parts, and units involved in the construction process (Gidado, 1996). The economic logic reflects the economizing process, in which economic benefits are pursued and distributed among the parties in the construction process. As such, it relates to the organization of the construction process, how the parties relate to each other, and how interdependencies are handled. Several specific features of construction, including its one-off nature, the division of work among several parties, the strong interdependencies that exist, and the adversarial nature of how construction parties relate to each other (Cox and Thompson, 1997), provide arguments for the existence of a specific logic in the construction industry at large. Due to the complexity of the construction process, there is no reason to assume that the overall logic is simple or homogeneous. Instead, it comprises a set of several competing kinds of logic that are associated with the interests of different groups (Kadefors, 1995). This set is the result of many interaction processes in which companies must often balance between different logics (Dubois and Gadde, 2000; Bygballe and Jahre, 2009).