Ingemansson Havenvid, M; Hulthen, K; Linne, A and Sundquist, V (2015) New ways of organising construction due to user demands. In: Raiden, A and Aboagye-Nimo, E (eds.) Proceedings of 31st Annual ARCOM Conference, 7-9 September 2015, Lincoln, UK.
Abstract
This paper investigates how client demands affect organisational renewal in construction, more specifically how the combining of technical and organisational resources are directly and indirectly affected by demands from the user. We adopt an industrial network perspective and focus on inter-organisational interaction between the actors involved in two specific healthcare construction projects in Sweden. The findings show that user demands affect organisational renewal with regard to both onsite and off-site operations and that effects due to user demands can be spread outside the 'temporary' network to the 'permanent' network. Hence, user demands create direct and indirect effects on both the combining of organisational and technical resources across individual projects and organisational boundaries. These findings imply that in order to understand innovation in construction it is necessary to study how technical and organisational resources are combined across organisational boundaries and across projects.
| Item Type: | Conference Paper (Paper) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | industrial networks; innovation; interaction; organising construction; resources; client demands |
| Index terms: | construction project, renewal, Sweden, onsite, site operation, interaction, Construction IT, boundaries, indirect effect |
| Subjects: | Geography, building construction, property law, production management, behavioral psychology, operations management, information systems, renovation and retrofit, analytical methods |
| Topics: | Research Practice, Digital Applications, Engineering Principles, Construction Technology, Project Management, Geographical Context, Site Management, Legal Issues |
| Descriptive scope: | 2 PC |
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