Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/95136 
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Year of Publication: 
1998
Series/Report no.: 
IUI Working Paper No. 508
Publisher: 
The Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IUI), Stockholm
Abstract: 
A unique database on individual tender documents is used to analyze the relationship between strategical factors and outcomes when technical consultancy firms (TCFs) compete for foreign assignments in the infrastructure sectors. TCFs, which sell services based on human capital, have a large focus on developing countries and thereby a high dependence on aid organizations. These organizations claim that technological factors as, e.g., the quality of the technical offers and the skill and experience of the TCFs' employees, are the most important factors when tender documents are evaluated. The results of the estimations show, however, that long-term relations between the TCF and the client - especially whether the TCF has had previous experience of, or has visited, the client - are at least as important as traditional technological factors. Local presence in the form of local offices has also some influence on the outcome.
Subjects: 
Technical consultancy firms
aid organizations
Tender documents
Long-term relations
JEL: 
F14
L84
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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