Construction Ethics Bid shopping is defined as the unethical practice in which a contractor discloses the bid price of one contractor or subcontractor to another, in order to obtain a lower bid price (Poage, 1990; Degn & Miller, 2003).
A free enterprise system is an economic system where a government places very few restrictions on the types of business activities or ownership in which citizens participate. This type of system is often referred to by others as a free market, or capitalism.
1 An enterprise resource planning system is a suite of integrated applications that a company uses to connect its business activities across departments so that everyone is working with the same data and processes.