Digitalization’s impacts on productivity: a model-based approach and evaluation in Germany’s building construction industry

Berlak, Joachim; Hafner, S. S.; Kuppelwieser, Volker G.

doi:10.1080/09537287.2020.1740815

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“…The design is motivated by the need to cut across local contexts to enhance analytical generalisability (Miles and Huberman 1994) and the possibilities for drawing analytical conclusions (Yin 2013). Case study designs also provide flexibility for explorative research, where new areas for theorybuilding can be uncovered (Voss, Tsikriktsis, and Frohlich 2002) as in the case of understanding the role of digitalisation for organisations (Zangiacomi et al 2020;Berlak, Hafner, and Kuppelwieser 2020).…”

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Digitalisation and quality management: problems and prospects

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Birch-Jensen

Gremyr

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Production Planning & Control

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Digitalisation provides both challenges and opportunities for Quality Management (QM). The purpose of this study is to identify various roles QM practitioners play in digitalisation initiatives to uncover the challenges and potential of QM's digitalisation journey. This issue is addressed through an analytical framework that stresses two dimensions: the exploration and exploitation of digitalised QM processes and value creation, which is performed by the customer or in interactions facilitated by the provider. Through a multiple-case study of four large Swedish organisations, we propose six different challenges and corresponding roles for QM. Further, the study identifies challenges of digitalisation affecting both exploitative and explorative practices throughout an organisation's value creation process. This research contributes to the existing literature with empirical evidence on the challenges induced by digitalisation, an area often discussed but not as often studied empirically.

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Digitalisation and quality management: problems and prospects

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Birch-Jensen

Gremyr

et al. 2020

Production Planning & Control

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“…Digital technologies generate data when used (Vial, 2019); for instance, wearable sensors and smart meters are used as a collection point of digital data in construction (Craveiroa et al, 2019). The automation systems use digital technologies to create self-organizing systems such as robots for lifting objects on sites (Berlak et al, 2020) and blockchain for executable payment to contractors (Li et al, 2019). Deriving from automation systems is digital access, which is the opportunity afforded by mobile access to internet networks to execute solutions in real time such as data analytics and processing to make on-the-spot decisions or make future predictions (Berger, 2016;Buisman, 2018;Maskuriy et al, 2019b).…”

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“…There was need to reconcile construction activity field of application of a digital technology, for instance, whether BIM is applicable to either one or both supply chain integration and interfirm relations (Hetemi et al, 2020). The authors extracted both activity fields and retained because the same digital technology (e.g., BIM) was applied to the activity fields in other publications in the sample [e.g., Berlak et al, 2020].…”

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“…Digital champions can be construction and project leaders who imbibe a strong commitment to implement digital technologies even when inconvenient (Chen, 2019a;Aghimien et al, 2020b). Such commitment can be exemplary for operation-level employees in construction (Berlak et al, 2020) and has been found to motivate them to become digital champions (Bonanomi et al, 2019). At the organization level, digital champions have been found to encourage the interorganizational application of digital technologies through digital partnerships (Aghimien et al, 2020b).…”

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“…Conceptually, DT refers to the changes (or disruptions) that the implementation of digital technologies brings to existing business models, which may be experienced in the construction production process, construction companies, and the construction supply chain (Hausberg et al, 2019;Nadkarni and Prügl, 2020). The transformation effects of digital technologies distinguish DT from digitization-which is only the conversion of analog information (e.g., texts, photos, and sounds) into digital information (or binary numbers) that can be encoded by the computer-and digitalization-which is the broader use of digital technologies to optimize existing business processes and functions through enhanced coordination to create more business opportunities and customer value (Verhoef et al, 2019;Berlak et al, 2020). In construction, an example is the old 2D designs on paper, which can now be modeled in 3D using computer-aided designs (CAD) (digitization).…”

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Sutrisna

2021

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There is increasing implementation of digital technologies in construction. However, the transformation effects encompassing digital technology implementation are yet to be fully comprehended within the context of construction. Therefore, this study was aimed to provide a holistic understanding of digital transformation in construction. The study drew on extant literature by studying 36 journal publications published between 2016 when digital transformation emerged in construction from the information systems field and 2020. This led to the development of an inductive framework using a grounded theory methodology (GTM) to highlight digital transformation in construction as a process where the implementation of digital technologies creates transformation effects that trigger strategic considerations for putting in place the enablers that facilitate transformation effects and for suppressing the barriers to it. Building on the framework, this study described and presented the strategic considerations for facilitating specific enablers and those for suppressing specific barriers as digital transformation guideline in construction. This study demonstrated how the implementation of digital technologies has increased the understanding of and provided the basis for digital transformation in construction.

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Digital Transformation (DT) strives to alter an entity by substantially changing its characteristics facilitated by integrating digital technologies. Albeit numerous barriers hinder the realization of its potential. Barriers are subject to scientific research. Generally, scientific works result in research streams. The existing literature already examines the DT streams. Although these works make an essential contribution, they cannot sufficiently explore the field of barriers. Keeping track of the concepts and themes in a growing research field is challenging. Therefore, the aims of this mapping study are (1) to show which domain-specific research streams are explicitly dealing with the DT barriers, (2) to highlight which topics research currently addresses, and (3) which topics should be investigated in the future. Combining elements of a bibliometric analysis with a systematic literature review, we mapped nine different streams based on 203 publications. The results indicate that much research focuses on industrial companies or sectors but needs an overarching perspective. Also, many studies are only concerned with identifying the barriers, while systematic approaches to overcoming them still need to be developed.

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Digitalization’s impacts on productivity: a model-based approach and evaluation in Germany’s building construction industry

Cited by 50 publications

References 55 publications

Digitalisation and quality management: problems and prospects

Digitalisation and quality management: problems and prospects

Facilitating Digital Transformation in Construction—A Systematic Review of the Current State of the Art

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