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Boyd, D (2021) A critical inquiry into the hyperreality of digitalization in construction. Construction Management and Economics, 39(07), 549–64.
Connaughton, J N and Collinge, W H (2021) Trialling a new approach to interdisciplinary collaboration in UK construction: A projects-as-practice analysis. Construction Management and Economics, 39(07), 595–616.
- Type: Journal Article
- Keywords: Action research; collaboration; construction projects; social practice; projects-as-practice;
- ISBN/ISSN: 0144-6193
- URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/01446193.2021.1933558
- Abstract:
This paper investigates the emergence of collaboration on a UK construction project pioneering a novel form of project procurement (Integrated Project Insurance: IPI). Using a projects-as-practice lens and an action research approach, examination of linked episodes of project activity chart the unfolding of collaboration praxis in an IPI context through the frequent interplays of praxis (situated doings), practice (rules, values, policies) and practitioners working together. The analysis focuses on important requirements in IPI: that project practitioners, supported by a facilitator, collaborate to develop joint solutions to project requirements and share responsibility for them. Findings show how practitioners understood how to collaborate through the progressive enactment of working together rather than by developing a prior agreement about what collaboration would involve. Thus, the doing of collaboration mattered more than sayings about it in how practitioners created meaning in developing new collaboration praxis. Through this enactment the facilitator role is understood more as a practitioner in the development of collaboration praxis than solely as a convenor of collaboration. Findings also show how the micro-activities of practitioners may be illuminated using a projects-as-practice lens combined with a focus on interconnected episodes of project life to understand the emergence of praxis on construction projects.
Gerding, D P, Wamelink, H ( W F and Leclercq, E M (2021) Implementing circularity in the construction process: a case study examining the reorganization of multi-actor environment and the decision-making process. Construction Management and Economics, 39(07), 617–35.
Wang, X, Wang, B, Xu, Y and Shi, L (2021) A chance constrained programming method to determine optimal capital structure for privatized infrastructure. Construction Management and Economics, 39(07), 579–94.
Zulu, S L and Khosrowshahi, F (2021) A taxonomy of digital leadership in the construction industry. Construction Management and Economics, 39(07), 565–78.