[01] Alexandros Verroiopoulos, Department of Civil Engineering, Piraeus University of Applied Sciences (Technological Education Institute of Piraeus), Athens, Greece. [02] Eleni Sfakianaki, School of Social Sciences, Hellenic Open University, Patras, Greece.

Outsourcing is a phenomenon originated in the 1950s, but it was not until the 1980s that was introduced and performed by organizations in various business sectors. Since then the outsourcing strategy is facing a continuous evolution that passed initially through its usage as a powerful tool in order to reduce costs, later on as a tool to provide external skills/knowledge/competences necessary for a differentiation advantage and finally as a tool to create new business models that target to a more flexible and adaptive enterprise. While outsourcing is a well introduced and developed method in many business sectors, it was integrated in the construction industry in the early 1990s and since then has become an extremely important factor to the overall success of firms. Since the application of the outsourcing, many changes have been held in the Greek construction industry, this paper intends to identify its impact in procurement, planning procedures and organization structure of the Greek construction companies, as also to reveal the trends of outsourcing.

Construction, Outsourcing, Procurement, Greece

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