Revisiting the Relationship Between Contract Governance and Contractors’ Opportunistic Behavior in Construction Projects

Contracts are crucial for curbing opportunism, a common phenomenon in construction projects. This article differentiates among the contractual mechanisms of obligatoriness, monitoring, and coordination, studies relationships between complexity above functions different types opportunistic behavior. Using data from 262 clients (i.e., parties issuing contracts) Chinese industry, this reveals that obligatoriness has negative effect on strong-form At same time, monitoring coordination have positive effects, respectively, weak-form Furthermore, we find goodwill trust mediates coordination's contributes to both contract management literature interorganizational relationship governance by providing more nuanced findings speak debate surrounding behavior, elaborate mediation mechanism, provide insights into function view.