Limitations

The decision to involve participants from owner companies only and exclude any contractor companies from the research was based on the following considerations:

1. The objectives of the OCWS process are primarily geared towards fulfilling the needs of the owner. Therefore, this process is owner driven.

2. Contractors have an incentive to influence the owner into transferring as many competencies to the contractor as possible.

Notwithstanding these reasons, the fact that contractors were not involved in the validation effort is an important limitation of this research.

Another limitation was the absence of data that would establish a correlation between the use of the OCWS process and capital project outcomes. Collection of such data was not possible due to the limited use of the process at the time of conducting this research. These limitations are further addressed under future research.