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Article: Change in construction: A critical perspective
Title | Change in construction: A critical perspective |
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Keywords | Benchmarking Best practice Change management Demonstration projects Industry performance Innovation Key performance indicators Organizational change Reform movement |
Issue Date | 2006 |
Publisher | Routledge. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/09613218.html |
Citation | Building Research And Information, 2006, v. 34 n. 2, p. 91-103 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Change within the construction sector has been a central concern of governments and a select few private-sector clients for a considerable time. The discourse of change emanating from organizations concerned with reform in the construction sector reflects these ongoing concerns for change in the sector. The underlying assumptions of the content of change and appropriate change mechanisms in the UK are critically examined and challenged. In particular, the limitations of measurement and best practice are explored. The allegiance to approaches based on measurement and best practice is acontextual, unreflective and insufficient in providing wholly reliable explanations for the relationship between practice and performance. Claims for the use of measurement and best practice by the reform movement must therefore be understood to have limitations and their use approached with caution. The emphasis on best practice is also understood to direct attention away from understanding the legitimacy of current practice and change within the UK construction sector. An agenda for change in the UK construction sector will need to engage with and be more reflective of current managerial practice and past change initiatives. Contextual approaches such as structuration theory offer a way in which to underpin a research framework that could support the reform movement in setting such an agenda. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/146362 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 3.7 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.766 |
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dc.contributor.author | Fernie, S | en_HK |
dc.contributor.author | Leiringer, R | en_HK |
dc.contributor.author | Thorpe, T | en_HK |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-04-20T02:05:31Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2012-04-20T02:05:31Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2006 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.citation | Building Research And Information, 2006, v. 34 n. 2, p. 91-103 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.issn | 0961-3218 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/146362 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Change within the construction sector has been a central concern of governments and a select few private-sector clients for a considerable time. The discourse of change emanating from organizations concerned with reform in the construction sector reflects these ongoing concerns for change in the sector. The underlying assumptions of the content of change and appropriate change mechanisms in the UK are critically examined and challenged. In particular, the limitations of measurement and best practice are explored. The allegiance to approaches based on measurement and best practice is acontextual, unreflective and insufficient in providing wholly reliable explanations for the relationship between practice and performance. Claims for the use of measurement and best practice by the reform movement must therefore be understood to have limitations and their use approached with caution. The emphasis on best practice is also understood to direct attention away from understanding the legitimacy of current practice and change within the UK construction sector. An agenda for change in the UK construction sector will need to engage with and be more reflective of current managerial practice and past change initiatives. Contextual approaches such as structuration theory offer a way in which to underpin a research framework that could support the reform movement in setting such an agenda. | en_HK |
dc.language | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | Routledge. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/09613218.html | en_HK |
dc.relation.ispartof | Building Research and Information | en_HK |
dc.rights | This is a pre-print version of the article: Fernie, S., Leiringer, R. and Thorpe, T. (2006). Change in construction: a critical perspective. Building Research and Information, 34(2), 91-103. The article is available at: http://pdfserve.informaworld.com/741268_731392193_741631499.pdf | - |
dc.rights | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. | - |
dc.subject | Benchmarking | en_HK |
dc.subject | Best practice | en_HK |
dc.subject | Change management | en_HK |
dc.subject | Demonstration projects | en_HK |
dc.subject | Industry performance | en_HK |
dc.subject | Innovation | en_HK |
dc.subject | Key performance indicators | en_HK |
dc.subject | Organizational change | en_HK |
dc.subject | Reform movement | en_HK |
dc.title | Change in construction: A critical perspective | en_HK |
dc.type | Article | en_HK |
dc.identifier.email | Leiringer, R:roine.leiringer@chalmers.se | en_HK |
dc.identifier.authority | Leiringer, R=rp01592 | en_HK |
dc.description.nature | preprint | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/09613210500491639 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-33644560306 | en_HK |
dc.relation.references | http://www.scopus.com/mlt/select.url?eid=2-s2.0-33644560306&selection=ref&src=s&origin=recordpage | en_HK |
dc.identifier.volume | 34 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.issue | 2 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.spage | 91 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.epage | 103 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000235313300001 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United Kingdom | en_HK |
dc.identifier.scopusauthorid | Fernie, S=6701859619 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.scopusauthorid | Leiringer, R=12753583200 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.scopusauthorid | Thorpe, T=7005074993 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.citeulike | 508991 | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0961-3218 | - |