Expert's consensus on payment performance attributes in the construction industry

Abstract

This paper aims to establish a status quo on expert consensus on payment performance attributed for public organizations in Nigerian Construction Industry. The research adopted Delphi technique in data collection. A list of 25 attributes obtained from payment practice/process was administered to the experts for consensus evaluation in three number of rounds. Wilcoxon non-parametric rank test was used to test the consensus. Based on the decision rule of ≥70% score for attribute retentions. The finding indicates that only earthquake is dropped among the twenty-five attributes. The remaining of twenty-four were identified by experts as payment performance attribute prevalence in Nigerian construction industry. The paper describes the empirical study that used Delphi methodology to establish the paymaster’s payment performance attributes for the construction industry. The paymaster’s payment performance attributes contribute to the client’s prompt payments performance or late payment performance. The attributes are useful for improving Client payment performance in the construction industry.