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Optimal incentive mechanisms for digital investment in construction projects require stronger early-stage incentives to leverage intertemporal spillover effects, with intensity scaling alongside contractors' digital competence, task-technology fit, and task interdependence. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.METHODOLOGICAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

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Develop an optimal incentive mechanism that motivates project participants to invest in digital capabilities across different phases of construction projects.

September 2, 2026Engineering Construction & Architectural Management

An incentive mechanism for construction projects considering intertemporal spillover effect of digital capability

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YZYinghan ZhuChinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College JZJing ZhouShandong Jianzhu University STSha TaoNanjing University

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Game-theoretic modeling reveals optimal stage-differentiated incentives for contractors, suggesting early digital support maximizes intertemporal spillover benefits.

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Develop an optimal incentive mechanism that motivates project participants to invest in digital capabilities across different phases of construction projects.
Formulated a multi-task, multi-stage, multi-agent model extending the principal-agent framework to evaluate resource competition and technological empowerment between conventional and digital tasks.
Applied analytical mathematical solutions and numerical simulations to evaluate the impact of digital competence, task-technology fit, and task interdependence on owner incentive intensity.
Optimal incentive design requires stage-differentiation, with owners needing to provide significantly stronger incentive intensity to early-stage contractors to harness intertemporal spillover benefits across project lifecycles.
Optimal incentive intensity increases positively alongside increases in contractor digital competence, task-technology fit, and the degree of digital task interdependence.

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Zhu et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a97e2c5c562ede874ec7099 https://doi.org/10.1108/ecam-09-2025-1534

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Game-theoretic modeling reveals optimal stage-differentiated incentives for contractors, suggesting early digital support maximizes intertemporal spillover benefits.

An incentive mechanism for construction projects considering intertemporal spillover effect of digital capability

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An incentive mechanism for construction projects considering intertemporal spillover effect of digital capability

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