Subcontracting and the survival of plants in the road construction industry : a panel quantile regression analysis

De Silva, Dakshina Garfield and Kosmopoulou, Georgia and Lamarche, Carlos (2017) Subcontracting and the survival of plants in the road construction industry : a panel quantile regression analysis. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 137. pp. 113-131. ISSN 0167-2681

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Abstract

This paper investigates how subcontracting parts of contracted work shapes entrants’ success and survival. We find that newly developed quantile regression approaches can be adapted to study survival of firms competing for government contracts in road construction. The method is applied on a data set that includes patterns of firm entry, exit and auction related information. We find an apparent increase in the business life of firms who subcontract out part of their projects. In Texas, these subcontracting effects appear to be more pronounced for firms with few or no options outside the industry, and among firms who contract out part of their work to Disadvantaged Business Enterprises.

Item Type:

Journal Article

Journal or Publication Title:

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

Additional Information:

This is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 137, 2017 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2017.02.016

Uncontrolled Keywords:

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Subjects:

?? entrantsprocurement auctionssurvival analysisquantile regressionorganizational behavior and human resource managementeconomics and econometrics ??

Departments:

Lancaster University Management School > Economics

ID Code:

84977

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Deposited On:

01 Mar 2017 14:06

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Yes

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Published

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05 Nov 2024 01:18

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https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/84977