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Boutilier, R G and Zdziarski, M (2017) Managing stakeholder networks for a social license to build. Construction Management and Economics, 35(08-09), 498-513.
De Biasio, A and Murray, A (2017) The social network of the UK PPP secondary equity market: Returns and competition in an emerging market. Construction Management and Economics, 35(08-09), 468-81.
Fellows, R and Liu, A M M (2017) 'What does this mean'? Sensemaking in the strategic action field of construction. Construction Management and Economics, 35(08-09), 578-96.
Keung, C and Shen, L (2017) Network strategy for contractors' business competitiveness. Construction Management and Economics, 35(08-09), 482-97.
London, K and Pablo, Z (2017) An actor-network theory approach to developing an expanded conceptualization of collaboration in industrialized building housing construction. Construction Management and Economics, 35(08-09), 553-77.
- Type: Journal Article
- Keywords: industrialized building; housing; collaboration; actor-network theory; network formation; separation; buildings; disintegration; empirical analysis; building components; fragmentation; construction industry; literature reviews; building construction; coop
- ISBN/ISSN: 0144-6193
- URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/01446193.2017.1339361
- Abstract:
Our aim is to examine the value of selected actor-network theory (ANT) elements in contributing to the development of an expanded theoretical and empirical conceptualization of collaboration in industrialized building construction for the housing sector. A review of collaboration meta-analyses literature from different disciplines suggests that collaboration is still commonly portrayed in a limited way as a strategy of integration driven in a top-down manner by a "convenor" of human stakeholders in ways that privilege simplified notions of coherence. We use specific ANT concepts empirically grounded in five case studies of innovative housing construction projects to describe an expanded conceptualization of the infrastructure of actor-networks. We examined a range of issues with respect to collaboration in industrialized building particularly in relation to network formation and disintegration. As the collaboration networks formed they sought coherence but not conformity and aimed for the management of tensions between integration and separation as well as stabilization and destabilization. This expanded conceptualization of collaboration describes the material-semiotic characteristics arranged around industrialized building technologies that are simultaneously stabilizing yet disruptive and proposes new ways by which the ideal of integration can be pursued in a fundamentally fragmented industry.;Our aim is to examine the value of selected actor-network theory (ANT) elements in contributing to the development of an expanded theoretical and empirical conceptualization of collaboration in industrialized building construction for the housing sector. A review of collaboration meta-analyses literature from different disciplines suggests that collaboration is still commonly portrayed in a limited way as a strategy of integration driven in a top-down manner by a "convenor" of human stakeholders in ways that privilege simplified notions of coherence. We use specific ANT concepts empirically grounded in five case studies of innovative housing construction projects to describe an expanded conceptualization of the infrastructure of actor-networks. We examined a range of issues with respect to collaboration in industrialized building particularly in relation to network formation and disintegration. As the collaboration networks formed they sought coherence but not conformity and aimed for the management of tensions between integration and separation as well as stabilization and destabilization. This expanded conceptualization of collaboration describes the material-semiotic characteristics arranged around industrialized building technologies that are simultaneously stabilizing yet disruptive and proposes new ways by which the ideal of integration can be pursued in a fundamentally fragmented industry.;
Opdyke, A, Lepropre, F, Javernick-Will, A and Koschmann, M (2017) Inter-organizational resource coordination in post-disaster infrastructure recovery. Construction Management and Economics, 35(08-09), 514-30.
Papadonikolaki, E, Verbraeck, A and Wamelink, H (2017) Formal and informal relations within BIM-enabled supply chain partnerships. Construction Management and Economics, 35(08-09), 531-52.
Poleacovschi, C, Javernick-Will, A and Tong, T (2017) The link between knowledge sharing connections and employee time savings: A social network analysis. Construction Management and Economics, 35(08-09), 455-67.