Malaysian Contractors in Gulf Construction
Middle East possesses a strong spending power that few other economies can contest, presenting a greater medium to long-term opportunities than most other parts of the world, albeit the downturn in Dubai. The aim of this paper is to investigate how Malaysian contractors manage financial and economic risks when operating in the Gulf construction industry. The data collection method was face-to-face in-depth interviews with three experts from Malaysia whom had experiences in Gulf construction industry. This paper identified the financial and economic risks encountered by the Malaysian contractors and their risk response measures. From the findings, it was obvious that the Gulf economies encouraged ventures from foreign firms but the risks faced by those firms were mostly on the internal financial aspects. The findings were purely an indication on the risk management practice in the Gulf based on three in-depth interviews with Malaysian experts in the Gulf construction. This preliminary study did not involve construction projects from all countries in the Gulf region; it covered only Saudi Arabia, Qatar, United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain, but left out Oman and Kuwait due to the absence of their projects awarded to Malaysian contractors.
economic risk financial risk Gulf international and overseas construction risk management
Loo Siaw Chuing Hamzah Abdul Rahman
Department of Quantity Surveying University of Malaya, UM Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
国际会议
2010 International Conference on Construction and Project Management(2010年IEEE建设与项目管理国际会议 2010ICCPM)
成都
英文
27-31
2010-11-16（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）