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.
Enterprise Systems Firms use enterprise systems, also known as enterprise resource planning ( ERP) systems, to integrate business processes in manufacturing and production, finance and accounting, sales and marketing, and human resources into a single software system.