文献类型：期刊文献

英文题名：Social Control in Outsourced Architectural and Engineering Design Consulting Projects: Behavioral Consequences and Motivational Mechanism

作者：Li, Yadi[1];Ning, Yan[2];Rowlinson, Steve[3,4]

机构：[1]East China Univ Sci & Technol, Sch Business, Shanghai 200237, Peoples R China;[2]Nanjing Univ, Sch Management & Engn, Nanjing 210093, Peoples R China;[3]Univ Hong Kong, Dept Real Estate & Construct, Hong Kong 999077, Peoples R China;[4]Bond Univ, Sch Soc & Design, Robina, Qld 4226, Australia

年份：2023

卷号：149

期号：4

外文期刊名：JOURNAL OF CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT

收录：;EI(收录号：20230413410436);WOS:【SCI-EXPANDED(收录号:WOS:000936671100010)】；

基金：AcknowledgmentsThis work was supported by the National Science Foundation of China (71872039, 72271118, and 71701130).

语种：英文

外文关键词：Social control; Design behavior; Autonomous motivation; Formal control; Architectural and engineering (A; E) design consulting projects; Self-determination theory

摘要：Although social control is the preferable control strategy in projects with low-level outcome measurability and behavior observability, empirical evidence for its effectiveness in such cases is sparse. To fill the knowledge gap, this study explores whether social control is effective in the alleged applicable contexts, taking outsourced architectural and engineering (A/E) design consulting projects as the empirical setting. A questionnaire survey was conducted to collect data. The results show that social control fosters designers' in-role and extra-role behaviors directly or indirectly through enhancing their autonomous motivation. High-level formal controls may weaken the positive effects of social control on design behaviors. This study contributes to the body of knowledge by adding a social-psychological perspective to organizational control research and by providing empirical evidence for the effectiveness of social control in outsourced A/E design consulting projects. It also offers managerial implications in properly arranging control strategies in outsourced A/E design consulting projects.