A century of innovation in the Dutch construction industry

Pries, Frens; Dorée, Andries G.

doi:10.1080/01446190500040349

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“…With respect to industries, no clear pattern of innovation emerged. The low score for the construction industry corresponds with the findings of other studies that have argued that the specific organization of this industry in the Netherlands impedes (strategic) renewal (Jacobs, Kuijper, and Roes 1992;Pries 1995).…”

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The Regional Environment and a Firm's Innovative Performance: A Plea for a Multilevel Interactionist Approach

2007

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Following the recent critical debate on the role of the firm versus that of the region, this article contends that for a true test of the importance of the role of the region for a firm's innovative performance firm‐specific heterogeneity needs to be minimized. Empirical studies have tended to deduce that the region matters from the macrophenomenon of regional clusters of economic activity. This deduction has led to an ecological fallacy, in which global phenomena or data aggregates that are actual representations of lower‐level phenomena cannot be generalized to those lower levels. This article argues that if researchers want to analyze how a firm's environment affects its performance, they need to include firm‐level strategy and structure. As an empirical illustration of this argument, the article presents a test—controlling for a number of firm‐specific factors—of whether regional characteristics like the intensity of regional research and development (R&D), the number of R&D workers in the region, and the presence of a research institute are significantly related to a firm's ability to produce innovations. The findings suggest that the firm‐specific drivers of innovation are more important than is a firm's regional environment. The article concludes that a renewed focus on the main actors and their interrelationships is needed, particularly those that involve the exchange of knowledge, to assess the extent to which such interactions are carried out within bounded territories.

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The Regional Environment and a Firm's Innovative Performance: A Plea for a Multilevel Interactionist Approach

2007

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“…Innovations in construction remains to be technology-rather than market-driven. But regulations have a surprising impact, as over onethird of all counted new innovations are related to new regulations (Pries and Dorée, 2005). This finding can thus also be applied to regulations on procurement and tendering procedures with a obligatory broader focus on quality criteria in addition to lowest price.…”

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The Dutch Construction Industry: An Overview and Its Use of Performance Information

Rijt¹,

Hompes²,

Santema

2010

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This paper gives an overview of the Dutch Construction industry and elaborates further on its use of performance information. After giving an overview of the Dutch construction industry depicting size, major contractors, growth, profitability, value added, costs, productivity, this section is concluded by giving future predictions of the industry for the following years. A summary is given of the 2002 Dutch construction collusion as a means to give explanations for the persistent use of procurement based on lowest-bid competition. Although a starting realization is recognizable towards more innovative ways of tendering to restore trust and bilateral relationships between constructors and their clients; change is slow as hard data of performance information is limited. Current available performance information of the Dutch construction industry is discussed, such as failure rate and costs, bottlenecks, procurement methods used, customer satisfaction and selection criteria. As seen throughout this paper, innovative ways of procurement can contribute to the changes aspired to by the Dutch construction industry as well as bring in added value. Government plays a central role as a major client and frontrunner and also with the means of regulating policy on procurement for the industry. Although new initiatives of change towards more innovative ways of tendering are starting to build with cooperation between companies and industry platforms, it remains still in its infancy.

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“…Knowledge innovation refers to the joint innovation behavior of the real estate project organizations with other project-based organizations on the basis of complementary advantages, sharing the risks and benefits to achieve a certain goal, in a certain period, under certain binding conditions, including process innovation, organizational innovation and product innovation, etc. Innovation is the result of cooperation, while knowledge innovation can reduce project cost and improve productivity, improve gains of the project participants and reduce cooperation risks [2]. Therefore, in order to realize the knowledge transfer among enterprises, cooperation is an indispensable way, which means the behavioral coordination between node enterprises in real estate projects is the basis for the realization of innovation.…”

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Behavioral coordination mechanism of inter-organizational knowledge innovation in real estate projects

Tang

Shi

2016

Journal of Interdisciplinary Mathematics

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According to the behavioral coordination and decision-making issues occurring in the process of inter-organizational knowledge innovation in real estate projects, we employed differential game method, chose the knowledge innovation behavior between owners and contractors for the study and made a comparative analysis on the result. The research result showed that: under the model of behavioral coordination and cooperation, the performance of knowledge innovation behavior of owners and contractors, relative gains and the increment of the overall project value of the supply chain of real estate projects were more favorable than the corresponding numbers under the model of non-cooperative decision-making. Then we analyzed the value range of distribution coefficient which enabled the relative gains *of owners and contractors to achieve Pareto optimality and the project value increment of knowledge innovation behavior.

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A century of innovation in the Dutch construction industry

Cited by 39 publications

References 9 publications

The Regional Environment and a Firm's Innovative Performance: A Plea for a Multilevel Interactionist Approach

The Regional Environment and a Firm's Innovative Performance: A Plea for a Multilevel Interactionist Approach

The Dutch Construction Industry: An Overview and Its Use of Performance Information

Behavioral coordination mechanism of inter-organizational knowledge innovation in real estate projects

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