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.
Open Enterprise Server (OES) is a server operating system designed for shared network resources and a virtualization computing environment. Open enterprise server, a product of Novell, is a combination of Netware and Suse Linux enterprise server and can be installed like any of the two depending upon the installation.