Evolutionary Game Theory Applied to Construction Project Conflict Management

Conflict as an inevitable social phenomenon that is prevalent in business organizations, with the modern economy, the rapid development of science and technology, environment projects dramatic changes in the direction of the conflict is also complicated, multi-direction. The evolutionary game theory is applied in order to produce a comprehensive analytic framework for solving such problem. Based on this theory, evolutionary game model is established and the evolutionary stable strategy (ESS) is obtained under different circumstances. The result shows that, project builder can get higher revenue when they take aggressive strategy, and driven by economic interests, project owner may take the high hand in order to maximize its revenue. At last, in light of these problems, several suggestions are given in order to solve the construction project conflict problems.