Engaged scholarship in construction management research: the adoption of information and communications technology in construction projects

Voordijk, Hans; Adriaanse, Adriaan Maria

doi:10.1080/01446193.2016.1139145

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“…An online survey was conducted to evaluate the impact of research on individuals, companies and the construction sector. In other words, the researchers evaluated how well the developed artefact worked (Voordijk and Adriaanse, 2016) from industry participants' points of view. Another purpose of the survey was to understand how to develop the activities and CI 20,4 management of the consortium.…”

Section: Survey and Interviews For Measuring The Impact Of The Consormentioning

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Fostering process innovations in construction through industry–university consortium

Lavikka

Seppänen

Peltokorpi

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Purpose University research efforts have not been effective in developing lasting impacts on operations management in construction because of inadequate coordination between academia and industry. This study aims to describe the development of an industry–university (IU) relationship which has enabled the conduct of practically and scientifically relevant research. Design/methodology/approach Design science research was carried out between 2016 and 2019 to build a consortium between a university and 17 design, construction, technology and logistics companies for enabling process innovations in construction. The consortium conducted industry-funded research on various topics, such as takt production, lean design management, prefabrication, measurement of waste and business models supported by digitalisation. The academic and practical impacts of the consortium’s research projects were investigated through a survey and in-depth company interviews. Findings The paper presents a conceptual model for creating an IU relationship to support scientifically and practically relevant research. The model includes network architects who mobilised consortium development and a joint governance body that developed a shared long-term vision and selected research topics based on this vision. The results show that using the model’s approach, the consortium selected research topics that have led to both academic publications and process innovations in construction. Originality/value Using empirical data, this study describes how to create a win-win IU innovation relationship that enables the implementation of process innovations into the construction sector and, at the same time, the conduct of scientific research in construction management.

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Section: Survey and Interviews For Measuring The Impact Of The Consormentioning

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Fostering process innovations in construction through industry–university consortium

Lavikka

Seppänen

Peltokorpi

et al. 2020

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“…Engaged scholarship is seen as a way of bridging the gulf between academic research and policy and practice, thereby rendering academic research relevant to practitioners and wider society. While engaged scholarship has its critics, it also has strong advocates, comprising of researchers from many disciplines and countries, including Barge and Shockley-Zalabak (2008) in education, Hammel et al (2015) in occupational health, Nilson et al (2014) in criminal justice, ter Bogt and van Helden (2014) in accounting, Voordijk and Adriaanse (2016) in construction management, and Voronov (2008) in critical management studies. Engaged scholarship represents an attempt to cut through the wider and longer running rigour–relevance debate (Gulati, 2007) by refuting competing values associated with practice-oriented versus theory-advancing research.…”

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Engaged scholarship in small firm and entrepreneurship research: Grappling with Van de Ven’s diamond model in retrospect to inform future practice

Whitehurst

Richter

2018

International Small Business Journal

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This article explores the dynamics of initiating and implementing an engaged scholarship approach by taking a current research project relating to small business development and employing Van de Ven’s diamond model to frame a personal critical reflection of our research process. We explore the scholarly and practical debates implicit in Van de Ven’s method of Engaged Scholarship before unpacking our research project to illustrate the challenges that scholars pursuing engaged forms of scholarship have no doubt faced, but journal article formats do not usually allow authors to explore, thereby providing lessons for scholars wanting to embark upon such projects. We make the argument that engaged scholarship and interactive research methods are well suited to the entrepreneurship and small firm field, but find that tensions are likely to be faced in respect of personal motivations and identities, gaining and maintaining stakeholder engagement, and balancing and managing relationships within diverse research teams.

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“…It was stated that this research field is rather a scientific discipline that uses theories from other scientific disciplines than a theory in itself (Voordijk and Adriaanse 2016). With knowledge from the SCM scientific discipline/research field, this thesis contributes by suggesting SCP as a means to address problems in logistics.…”

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“…This thesis's target group includes researchers in the construction management field. Construction management research is vaguely defined, but Voordijk and Adriaanse (2016) describe it as a scientific discipline that seeks to explain phenomena that are related to the design, production and operation of the built environment with the use of theories from other scientific disciplines. This thesis contributes with theories from the SCM scientific discipline/research field in terms of suggesting SCP as a means to address problems in logistics.…”

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Developing a Framework for Supply Chain Planning in Construction

Thunberg¹

2016

Linköping Studies in Science and Technology. Dissertations

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Supply chain management (SCM) has been stressed as a remedy to many of the underlying issues in the construction industry. However, the positive examples where SCM has been successfully utilised and diminished the lingering issues in construction is scarce. The question is why. Previous studies have stressed the importance of planning both the construction project as such but also the supply chain and the logistics. As an important part of SCM, supply chain planning (SCP) focuses on planning different aspects of the supply chain through involving different members of the supply chain in the planning process. SCP in construction is scarce as the planning of the logistics in general. Failing to plan the supply chain, involving supply chain members in the planning, and integrating the processes of planning the supply chains and the construction project can be one reason for the low numbers of successful SCM adoption in construction. In improving the SCP in construction, this thesis develops a SCP framework for construction that involves the main contractor, subcontractors, and suppliers. The aim is to improve SCP, collaboration, and eliminate many of the common problems in construction through a SCM and SCP perspective.The developed framework is based on an existing planning framework for sales and operations planning. This framework is generic and synthesises planning in general. It consists of identifying/developing: outcomes, input, organisation, process, key performance measurements, and IT-tools. It is thus necessary to investigate what these aspects means in a construction context. Four research objects will be fulfilled: The first objective will aid in focusing the work with developing the framework as one aim of the framework is to aid in eliminating common logistical problems. In doing so it is needed to identify what problems exist and how the SCP framework can aid in overcoming them. The second and third objective focus on developing the framework in terms of developing a planning process (procedure) and an organisation for developing the plans. These two also includes identifying outcomes of SCP and important inputs. The final objective focus on suggesting important performance measurements for aiding in the planning process.Several different studies have aid in fulfilling the objectives and the purpose. A case study, literature review, and a series of interviews aided in fulfilling objective 1. The interview series and focus groups were used for fulfilling objectives 2 and 3. Objective 4 used the results from the case study. Through logical reasoning and compiling the previous works made it possible to finalise and develop the framework.Findings indicate that common logistical problems can be categorised as: material flow issues, internal company communication, project communication, and complexity. The first one contains problems with e.g. delivery reliability, material flows, and inventories. Company communication regards problems with e.g. sharing information internally, not updating plans, ...

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Engaged scholarship in construction management research: the adoption of information and communications technology in construction projects

Cited by 15 publications

References 52 publications

Fostering process innovations in construction through industry–university consortium

Fostering process innovations in construction through industry–university consortium

Engaged scholarship in small firm and entrepreneurship research: Grappling with Van de Ven’s diamond model in retrospect to inform future practice

Developing a Framework for Supply Chain Planning in Construction

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