Impact of BIM on Stakeholder Collaboration and Organizational Culture in Construction Projects in Vietnam

Abstract

Building Information Modelling (BIM) changes how parties in a construction project coordinate, exchange information and allocate responsibility. This article examines that change in Vietnam along three dimensions: collaboration among clients, consultants, contractors and regulators; the manifestations of organizational culture that shape the uptake of BIM; and the institutional conditions that bound the first two. No new primary data are collected. The study synthesises three bodies of published secondary evidence: legal instruments effective from 1 July 2026, a transport infrastructure case study and a multi-case study of Vietnamese AEC firms, and the quantitative results of a 2026 doctoral thesis. The synthesis indicates that management and coordination capacity shows the strongest association with BIM outcomes, followed by collaborative environment, technology, human resources and economic factors. The institutional factor shows the weakest direct association but conditions the others. Cultural effects appear as organizational separation between firms, power distance and a gap between BIM specialists and non-specialists. The article proposes a three-tier collaboration framework in which the organizational tier is central; the framework is propositional and has not been empirically tested.