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Addis, M (2016) Tacit and explicit knowledge in construction management. Construction Management and Economics, 34(07), 439-45.

Chan, P W (2016) Expert knowledge in the making: Using a processual lens to examine expertise in construction. Construction Management and Economics, 34(07), 471-83.

  • Type: Journal Article
  • Keywords: process philosophy; intuition; la durée (duration); becoming; organization theory; construction
  • ISBN/ISSN: 0144-6193
  • URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/01446193.2016.1190851
  • Abstract:
    Expertise in construction has typically been associated with the esoteric, where experts occupy privileged positions through their possession of specialist skills and knowledge. In this conceptual piece, an attempt is made to broaden this view of expertise found in the construction management literature by drawing on a reading of the process philosophical writings of Henri Bergson and others. Re-reading expertise from a processual standpoint, it is argued that our conceptualization of expertise in construction management should move beyond its treatment as a thing to bring to the fore expertise as an open-ended, ongoing, ever-evolving process of becoming. At the heart of this ontological shift of expertise in construction lies the emphasis on the tacit and recognition that expertise is, at the same time, interactional, intuitive and incidental. These ideas are illustrated in a vignette of environmental expertise in an airport context.;  Expertise in construction has typically been associated with the esoteric, where experts occupy privileged positions through their possession of specialist skills and knowledge. In this conceptual piece, an attempt is made to broaden this view of expertise found in the construction management literature by drawing on a reading of the process philosophical writings of Henri Bergson and others. Re-reading expertise from a processual standpoint, it is argued that our conceptualization of expertise in construction management should move beyond its treatment as a thing to bring to the fore expertise as an open-ended, ongoing, ever-evolving process of becoming. At the heart of this ontological shift of expertise in construction lies the emphasis on the tacit and recognition that expertise is, at the same time, interactional, intuitive and incidental. These ideas are illustrated in a vignette of environmental expertise in an airport context.;

Gacasan, E M P, Wiggins, M W and Searle, B J (2016) The role of cues in expert project manager sensemaking. Construction Management and Economics, 34(07), 492-16.

Gluch, P and Bosch-Sijtsema, P (2016) Conceptualizing environmental expertise through the lens of institutional work. Construction Management and Economics, 34(07), 522-14.

Ingirige, B (2016) Theorizing construction industry practice within a disaster risk reduction setting: Is it a panacea or an illusion?. Construction Management and Economics, 34(07), 592-607.

Kanjanabootra, S and Corbitt, B (2016) Reproducing knowledge in construction expertise: A reflexive theory, critical approach. Construction Management and Economics, 34(07), 561-77.

Kokkonen, A and Alin, P (2016) Practitioners deconstructing and reconstructing practices when responding to the implementation of BIM. Construction Management and Economics, 34(07), 578-91.

Mogendorff, K (2016) The building or enactment of expertise in context: What the performative turn in the social sciences may add to expertise research in construction management. Construction Management and Economics, 34(07), 484-91.

Newton, S (2016) The being of construction management expertise. Construction Management and Economics, 34(07), 458-70.

Raiden, A (2016) Horseplay, care and hands on hard work: Gendered strategies of a project manager on a construction site. Construction Management and Economics, 34(07), 508-21.

Sage, D J (2016) Rethinking construction expertise with posthumanism. Construction Management and Economics, 34(07), 446-57.

Scott, L M (2016) Theory and research in construction education: The case for pragmatism. Construction Management and Economics, 34(07), 552-60.

Voordijk, H and Adriaanse, A (2016) Engaged scholarship in construction management research: The adoption of information and communications technology in construction projects. Construction Management and Economics, 34(07), 536-51.