"Shared sense of purposefulness": a new concept to understand the practice of coordinating design in construction. Issue 1 (2nd January 2020)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- "Shared sense of purposefulness": a new concept to understand the practice of coordinating design in construction. Issue 1 (2nd January 2020)
- Main Title:
- "Shared sense of purposefulness": a new concept to understand the practice of coordinating design in construction
- Authors:
- Çıdık, Mustafa Selçuk
Boyd, David - Abstract:
- Abstract: Construction management literature sees the collective task of coordinating design as being about the "'integration'" of "fragmented" discipline-specific design tasks/outputs, thus overlooking the important role of social interactions. This is not only conceptually problematic but also presents a practical management problem. As a response, a practice-based approach, which relies on a "becoming" ontology, is adopted for a practical explanation of design coordination for more effective design management. The adopted methodology suggests that design develops as a result of unfolding (path-dependent) individual actions and interdisciplinary interactions. Based on this, the concept of a "shared sense of purposefulness" is proposed to refer to the temporary and precarious organizational state of a design team in which each of the interacting team members has achieved a state of purposefulness to resume individual action. Hence, design coordination in construction is redefined as continuously re-establishing and maintaining "a shared sense of purposefulness". The concept's usefulness for understanding the practice of design coordination is demonstrated using data collected from a project in the UK. The discussion enables fresh insights into the everyday operation of design coordination. It is concluded that the proposed conception paves a way forward both for the research and practice in construction design management.
- Is Part Of:
- Construction management and economics. Volume 38:Issue 1(2020)
- Journal:
- Construction management and economics
- Issue:
- Volume 38:Issue 1(2020)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 38, Issue 1 (2020)
- Year:
- 2020
- Volume:
- 38
- Issue:
- 1
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2020-0038-0001-0000
- Page Start:
- 18
- Page End:
- 31
- Publication Date:
- 2020-01-02
- Subjects:
- Design coordination -- design management -- sensemaking -- organizational analysis -- practice-based study -- construction
Construction industry -- Management -- Periodicals
Construction industry -- Finance -- Periodicals
338.47624 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcme20/current ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1080/01446193.2019.1593471 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0144-6193
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