Assessment of the Impact of ISO 9001 Certification on Ethiopian Construction Companies

This research has studied the impact of ISO 9001 on certified Ethiopian construction companies. The objective of this research is to determine if Ethiopian ISO 9001 certified construction companies have benefited from obtaining the certification and investigate the main reasons if they have not. To carry out this study, pieces of literatures are reviewed and briefly organized in to subtopics under the literature review part. A questionnaire is designed based on the literature review and distributed to ISO certified construction companies, then collected and analyzed. Interview was also conducted to validate the information collected through questionnaire and get additional information which was not covered in the questionnaire.

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El autor se licenció en 2007 y obtuvo un máster en 2014 en Tecnología y Gestión de la Construcción por la Universidad de Addis Abeba y cuenta con 10 años de experiencia docente (actualmente como profesor) en la Universidad de Addis Abeba (EiABC). Paralelamente al ámbito académico, el autor tiene 11 años de experiencia laboral en diferentes puestos, incluido el de director de proyectos.