Models of Construction Innovation

Slaughter, E. Sarah

doi:10.1061/(asce)0733-9364(1998)124:3(226)

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“…Innovation has been seen in relation to new products, new processes, new raw materials, new forms of organization, and new markets. Slaughter (1998) defines innovation in construction industry as the "actual use of a non-trivial change and improvement in a process, product, or system that is novel to the institution developing the change" (p. 1).…”

Section: Innovation In Construction Industrymentioning

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Are Innovations Being Created or Adopted in the Construction Industry? Exploring Innovation in the Construction Industry

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The recent debate on innovation within an organizational setting has shifted focus toward discussing whether innovation is being adopted or being created. This shift is due to the failure of many innovation efforts and the fact that for each innovation creation or innovation adoption, different skills, resources, and cultures are needed to encourage each innovation. The objective of this article is to explore the type of innovation implemented by the construction participants. A conceptual model of innovation creation and innovation adoption was developed using four criteria: by justification of new ideas, by purposes, by activities involved, and by nature. Face-to-face questionnaires were conducted with developers, consulting firms, and contractors in Penang, Malaysia. The data were analyzed using descriptive analysis. Factor analysis was used to classify the innovation creation and innovation adoption. The results show that the construction participants in Malaysia are categorized as an innovation adopter. This result provides better understanding about the type of innovation implemented by the construction participants, in particular the contractors and the consulting firms. The results could also be used as a foundation for conducting future research to identify appropriate skills, knowledge, culture, and resources for such innovations.

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Section: Innovation In Construction Industrymentioning

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“…Innovation is notoriously difficult to measure (Smith 2005), whether using the OECD definition or others (Slaughter 1998;Blayse and Manley 2004). To minimize bias arising from different understandings of innovation, three different approaches were combined to give an overall innovation index score.…”

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Relationship between Construction Firm Strategies and Innovation Outcomes

Manley

McFallan

Kajewski

2009

J. Constr. Eng. Manage.

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Survey results provide a preliminary assessment of the relative contribution of a range of tactical business strategies to innovation performance by firms in the Australian construction industry. Over 1,300 firms were surveyed in 2004, resulting in a response rate of 29%. Respondents were classified as high, medium or low innovators according to an innovation index based on the novelty and impact of their innovations and their adoption of listed technological and organizational advances. The relative significance of 23 business strategies concerning (1) employees, (2) marketing, (3) technology, (4) knowledge and (5) relationships was examined by determining the extent to which they distinguished high innovators from low innovators. The individual business strategies that most strongly distinguished high innovators were (1) 'investing in R&D', (2) 'participating in partnering and alliances on projects', (3) 'ensuring project learnings are transferred into continuous business processes', (4) 'monitoring international best practice', and (5) 'recruiting new graduates'. Of the five types of strategies assessed, marketing strategies were the least significant in supporting innovation. The results provide practical guidance to managers in project-based industries wishing to improve their innovation performance.

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“…Multiple definitions of innovation exist in the construction literature, but the definition of Freeman cited by Slaughter [15] captures the essence, that innovation is the 'actual use of a non-trivial change and improvement in a process, product, or system that is novel to the institution developing the change' ( [15], p. 226). In developed countries, different governing strategies have a significant impact of how building innovation is supported.…”

Section: Production and Innovation In The Construction Industrymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Innovation, like all of building, takes place within a system of inter-related actors and processes. As such, the source of an innovation may come from a variety of stakeholders including research and development organisations such as universities, manufacturers and product suppliers, designers, contractors (builders) and sub-contractors, as well as owners and occupants [15,16]. Reflecting this interlinked system, innovations may be described by the affect they have on the system as a whole.…”

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“…Accordingly, these are likely to originate from parties that have a higher degree of control over relationships within the system, such as contractors and owners. Systems innovations are targeted specifically at modification of the linkages between the various actors, and so to be implemented require an expertise in managing both modular and architectural innovations, likely coming from companies with design and implementation responsibilities and strong ties to project owners [15]. Housing consumers remain largely outside of the system of linkages that form the industry, and so have little knowledge of the potential effect on other actors of requested changes, which are difficult enough to predict even by those inside the system, as the next section discusses.…”

Section: Production and Innovation In The Construction Industrymentioning

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Uneasy Bedfellows: Social Justice and Neo-Liberal Practice in the Housing Market

Martel

2016

Laws

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Abstract:The Australian state has ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), which emphasizes a social justice-based, personalized service delivery model. The upcoming National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) reflects this model and aims to facilitate people living with a disability being able to access services while housed within the private residential market, a move away from a state-based combined residential/service care model. However, in Australia's neo-liberal housing market government intervention tends to shy away from policies that overtly impose restrictions on private firms. Therefore, in the absence of a subsidy from the state, the CRPD is of limited use in encouraging private developers to improve the appropriateness of its new built stock for people with a disability. A more persuasive approach is to highlight the size, diversity, and economic power of the disability-friendly housing consumer market when housing provision is separated from disability care delivery. This paper examines the feasibility of sustaining innovation in the volume builder housing market by aligning accessibility promoting changes to the existing innovation channels within Australian firms, suggesting that the NDIS concentrate on assisting the housing industry transition to a make-to-order model from the current make-to-forecast one.

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Models of Construction Innovation

Cited by 407 publications

References 16 publications

Are Innovations Being Created or Adopted in the Construction Industry? Exploring Innovation in the Construction Industry

Are Innovations Being Created or Adopted in the Construction Industry? Exploring Innovation in the Construction Industry

Relationship between Construction Firm Strategies and Innovation Outcomes

Uneasy Bedfellows: Social Justice and Neo-Liberal Practice in the Housing Market

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