The study aims to identify and examine the construction organisational environments and its dimensions that have an impact on the performance of contracting companies in South Africa.,The study reports the result of quantitative research that obtained data from 72 construction organisations registered with the South African construction industry development board via a questionnaire survey. Descriptive statistics, non-parametric and exploratory principal component analysis were used to summarise forms of correlations among observed variables and to reduce a large number of observed variables to a smaller number of factors that provide an operational definition for the underlying dimension.,This study identified six exogenous and three endogenous environmental factors that have a varying degree of impact on construction organisation performance. Four dimensions of the environment were also examined, and environmental complexity has the highest variance explained which implies that the complexity of the construction business environment significantly influences the performance of construction firms.,This paper studies the environment of the South African construction industry using cross-sectional data in exploratory research. A confirmatory study should be conducted using a longitudinal panel design with a larger sample in similar future research.,The study offers practical implications to construction organisation owners operating in the South African construction industry to understand the need to acquire market and environmental data and process them in a way that will reduce its uncertainty when making strategic decisions.,This study contributes to the current discourse on organisations’ business environments to better understand their influences on organisational performance.

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南非建筑业经营环境分析

该研究旨在识别和检查对南非承包公司的业绩有影响的建筑组织环境及其规模。该研究报告了定量研究的结果，该定量研究的结果是从在南非建筑业注册的72个建筑组织获得的数据工业发展局通过问卷调查。描述性统计，非参数和探索性主成分分析用于总结观测变量之间的相关形式，并将大量观测变量减少为为基础维度提供操作定义的较少因素。六个对建筑组织绩效影响程度不同的外生和三个内生环境因素。还检查了环境的四个维度，并且解释了环境复杂性具有最大的方差，这表明建筑业务环境的复杂性显着影响了建筑公司的业绩。探索性研究中的剖面数据。应当使用纵向面板设计进行验证性研究，并在以后的类似研究中使用更大的样本。该研究对从事南非建筑业的建筑组织业主提供实际意义，以了解获取市场和环境数据并进行处理的必要性以某种方式减少其在制定战略决策时的不确定性。