Outsourcing strategies of construction companies and their application fields

Under the influence of todays' competitive environment and globalization, various strategies have been experimented about how construction firms' activities can continue efficiently. The outsourcing strategy is one of these strategies, and the strategical management sources consider it as one of the method to have strategic advantage. Using outsourcing method is a means, helping one company to reach its aims by making its structure more flexible.The main goal of this study is analysing the applications of outsourcing- considerably a new strategy- in the construction sector, which is used by the firms to survive against the unbearable pressure of competition and to grow up, in the unlimited economic periphery of global world market and getting useful results at the end of this analysis. In this dense competitive environment, companies are obliged to make changes according to their inside and outside surroundings' expectations at their management philosophy and values, at their aims and strategies and finally at their organisation structure and processes. Companies are inclined to outsourcing in their competitive environment with the purposes of decreasing the costs, increasing the efficiency, focusing on the core business and etc?Key Words: Outsourcing, Construction Sector, Project Management, Sub-contractor, Appointment