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Berente, N, Baxter, R and Lyytinen, K (2010) Dynamics of inter-organizational knowledge creation and information technology use across object worlds: the case of an innovative construction project. Construction Management and Economics, 28(06), 569–88.

Bresnen, M (2010) Keeping it real? Constituting partnering through boundary objects. Construction Management and Economics, 28(06), 615–28.

Kjellberg, H (2010) Struggling to perform a warehouse: buildings as symbols and tools. Construction Management and Economics, 28(06), 675–94.

  • Type: Journal Article
  • Keywords: measurement; technological change; strategic planning; socio-technical systems; organizational learning; wholesaling; performation
  • ISBN/ISSN: 0144-6193
  • URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/01446191003702476
  • Abstract:
    The built environment and the way in which it is understood critically affect many business enterprises. Despite its importance, few studies have explicitly investigated the process through which changes to the built environment are introduced into ongoing businesses. To this end the methodological principles of the sociology of translation (ANT) were employed to generate a historical account of one such change process. Specifically, the account describes how a major Swedish food wholesaler introduced one-storey warehouses into their operations. This introduction was linked to a transformation of the warehouse as such: in the 1940s the wholesaler viewed its warehouses as symbols (‘outward signs of inner strength’) while ideas from the US suggested another identity—that of a tool for wholesale operations. The efforts of the wholesaler to realize this new identity included investments in metrologies, organization schemes, and concrete, suggesting that theoretical perspectives on objects are not generally applicable but require perspective-specific investments in ‘words and their worlds’. Viewing the realization of an object-perspective as a performation struggle (Callon, 2007) it is suggested that this process of adjustment unfolds through interplay between presenting and re-presenting the world.

Luck, R (2010) Using objects to coordinate design activity in interaction. Construction Management and Economics, 28(06), 641–55.

Rooke, C N, Rooke, J A, Koskela, L and Tzortzopoulos, P (2010) Using the physical properties of artefacts to manage through-life knowledge flows in the built environment: an initial exploration. Construction Management and Economics, 28(06), 601–13.

Sage, D J, Dainty, A R J and Brookes, N J (2010) Who reads the project file? Exploring the power effects of knowledge tools in construction project management. Construction Management and Economics, 28(06), 629–39.

Schweber, L and Harty, C (2010) Actors and objects: a socio-technical networks approach to technology uptake in the construction sector. Construction Management and Economics, 28(06), 657–74.

Styhre, A and Gluch, P (2010) Managing knowledge in platforms: boundary objects and stocks and flows of knowledge. Construction Management and Economics, 28(06), 589–99.

Tryggestad, K, Georg, S and Hernes, T (2010) Constructing buildings and design ambitions. Construction Management and Economics, 28(06), 695–705.

Whyte, J and Lobo, S (2010) Coordination and control in project-based work: digital objects and infrastructures for delivery. Construction Management and Economics, 28(06), 557–67.