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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.
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.
- Type: Journal Article
- Keywords: infrastructure; knowledge flows; design process; digital techniques; practice
- ISBN/ISSN: 0144-6193
- URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/01446193.2010.486838
- Abstract:
A major infrastructure project is used to investigate the role of digital objects in the coordination of engineering design work. From a practice-based perspective, research emphasizes objects as important in enabling cooperative knowledge work and knowledge sharing. The term ‘boundary object’ has become used in the analysis of mutual and reciprocal knowledge sharing around physical and digital objects. The aim is to extend this work by analysing the introduction of an extranet into the public–private partnership project used to construct a new motorway. Multiple categories of digital objects are mobilized in coordination across heterogeneous, cross-organizational groups. The main findings are that digital objects provide mechanisms for accountability and control, as well as for mutual and reciprocal knowledge sharing; and that different types of objects are nested, forming a digital infrastructure for project delivery. Reconceptualizing boundary objects as a digital infrastructure for delivery has practical implications for management practices on large projects and for the use of digital tools, such as building information models, in construction. It provides a starting point for future research into the changing nature of digitally enabled coordination in project-based work.