Dapaah Cecilia, O; Ernest, K; Kenneth, E; Juliet, O B; Edward, B and Maame, A I (2025) Disability inclusion studies in the construction industry: A mixed review approach. International Journal of Construction Management, 25(10), pp. 1186-1196. ISSN 1562-3599
Abstract
People with disabilities are an important part of our society and are acknowledged as a wonderful piece of human variety. However, their involvement in the building business is mostly unknown. This report aims to give a critical assessment of disability inclusion studies in the construction industry and identify areas for further research. The Scopus search engine aided in the literature review search, where 253 publications were discovered using relevant keywords. After carefully reviewing the titles, abstracts, keywords, and full texts of the publications, a total of 55 relevant publications were selected. A scientometric study was undertaken to chart the landscape of disability inclusion studies within the construction industry and identify primary areas of research focus within this domain. The top five countries that are actively researching disability in the construction industry include the UK, the United States, Brazil, Canada, and Australia. The emerging areas in disability inclusion research in the construction industry focused on social value, social innovation, social procurement, employment, disability management, policies, discrimination, and disability management maturity model. The study highlighted the essential knowledge areas crucial for enhancing the integration of persons with disabilities in the construction sector to industry practitioners and other stakeholders.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | construction industry; content analysis; persons with disabilities; scientometric review |
| Index terms: | integration, practitioner, discrimination, construction sector, publication, disability, United States, society, content analysis, Brazil, literature review, social value, construction industry, maturity model, employment, Australia, social innovation, Canada |
| Subjects: | management, organizational analysis, sociology, health conditions and diseases, industry analysis, data analysis and analytics, Geography, evaluation, professional ethics, communities and social development, research dissemination and communication, practitioner |
| Topics: | Geographical Context, Health and Safety, Legal Issues, Research Practice, Information Management, Stakeholder Management, Roles and Professions, Human Resources, Urban Studies, Organizational Design |
| Descriptive scope: | 4 PCTA |
N.B. Descriptive scope is a count of how many of the five facets of empirical research are indicated by the words used in title, abstract and keywords. It is not intended as a judgement on the research; merely a count of the kind of word we would expect to indicate Phenomenon, Concepts, Theoretical framing, Empirical techniques, Analytical techniques. If all five are present, then a code of “5 PCTEA” will indicate this. If you feel the coding for this record is questionable, we welcome discussion around the terms we matched or the way we categorized them. The facet you would expect may not be coded, or a facet may be coded inappropriately. This can also bear on a larger question, of which facets should be treated as defining in construction management research. Please get in touch, and we will look at it. More details here