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Çıdık, M S and Boyd, D (2020) “Shared sense of purposefulness”: a new concept to understand the practice of coordinating design in construction. Construction Management and Economics, 38(01), 18–31.

Brooks, T, Scott, L, Spillane, J P and Hayward, K (2020) Irish construction cross border trade and Brexit: Practitioner perceptions on the periphery of Europe. Construction Management and Economics, 38(01), 71–90.

Oswald, D (2020) Safety indicators: questioning the quantitative dominance. Construction Management and Economics, 38(01), 11–17.

Ponton, H, Osborne, A, Thompson, N and Greenwood, D (2020) The power of humour to unite and divide: a case study of design coordination meetings in construction. Construction Management and Economics, 38(01), 32–54.

Troje, D and Gluch, P (2020) Populating the social realm: new roles arising from social procurement. Construction Management and Economics, 38(01), 55–70.

  • Type: Journal Article
  • Keywords: Employment requirements; identity; practices; professional roles; social procurement;
  • ISBN/ISSN: 0144-6193
  • URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/01446193.2019.1597273
  • Abstract:
    Employment requirements, as part of social procurement, are increasingly used in construction procurement as a tool to mitigate issues of exclusion on the job market. To create a better understanding how employment requirements nurtures a new type of actor, here named the “employment requirement professional” (ERP), the aim of this paper is to study how this role is framed in terms of work practices and professional identity. Building on 21 semi-structured interviews in the Swedish construction sector, a detailed account of who works with employment requirements, how and why they conduct their work is provided. The findings show how ERPs mediate between contrasting interests when they create new social procurement roles and practices; how they enact different approaches to promote social sustainability, how their roles are formed by multiple and reciprocal lines of actions, and how they make sense of who they are and what type of work they engage in. The research contributes to a discussion on effects from social procurement in construction and the emergence of a new professional role, their identity and work practices.

van den Boomen, M, Spaan, M T J, Shang, Y and Wolfert, A R M (2020) Infrastructure maintenance and replacement optimization under multiple uncertainties and managerial flexibility. Construction Management and Economics, 38(01), 91–107.