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Blyth, K, Lewis, J and Kaka, A (2004) Developing a framework for a standardized works programme for building projects. Construction Innovation, 4(04), 193–210.

Bossink, B A G (2004) Effectiveness of innovation leadership styles: a manager’s influence on ecological innovation in construction projects. Construction Innovation, 4(04), 211–28.

  • Type: Journal Article
  • Keywords: Construction; Innovation; Leadership; Management; Projects
  • ISBN/ISSN: 1471-4175
  • URL: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/14714170410815105
  • Abstract:
    This article presents four basic innovation leadership styles: charismatic, instrumental, strategic and interactive innovation leadership. The leadership styles and their characteristsics relate to process and product innovations in construction projects. A theoretical framework – which synthesizes these relations – enables explorative research into the effects of leadership on organizational innovativeness. Four case studies, observing the same manager in four comparable projects, explore the effects of each leadership style on a construction project’s innovativeness in ecological terms. On an analytical level the case study explorations indicate that a manager’s consistent performance of a leadership style stimulates the project’s ecological innovativeness when the manager also injects the project with ecological information, knowledge and competence. It also indicates that a manager’s consistent performance of a leadership style, without an injection of information, knowledge and competence in the project, does not stimulate the project’s ecological innovativeness. Record 69.

Cheng, E W L, Li, H, Fang, D P and Xie, F (2004) Construction safety management: an exploratory study from China. Construction Innovation, 4(04), 229–41.

Goulding, J S and Alshawi, M (2004) A process-driven IT training model for construction: core development issues. Construction Innovation, 4(04), 243–54.