The Connectivity of Innovation in the Construction Industry (Hardcover)

The construction industry is currently experiencing accelerating developments concerning societal demands along with project complexity, internationalization and digitalization. In an attempt to grasp the consequences of these demands on productivity and innovation, this edited book addresses how innovation is likely to take place with a more long-term perspective on the construction sector. While existing literature focuses on organizational discontinuity and fragmentation as the main reasons for the apparent lack of innovation in the industry, this book highlights the connectivity of construction actors, resources and activities as fundamental for understanding how innovation takes place.Through 15 empirically grounded chapters, the book shows how innovation is part of construction processes on various levels, including project, firm and industry, and that these innovation processes are characterized by organizational and technological connectivity over time. Written by European business management scholars, the chapters cover empirical cases and examples from both a multi-organizational and a multi-international perspective in terms of covering the viewpoints of different industry actors and the contexts of several different European countries including: Sweden, Norway, the UK, Italy, France, Hungary and Poland. By illustrating how connectivity is part of innovation processes in the creation of single-product innovations, of various innovations within and across projects, as well as a fundamental aspect of the processes in which innovations cross nations, the book provides a new angle on how to understand construction innovation and where the industry might (or needs to) be heading next. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in construction management, project management, engineering management, innovation studies, business and management studies.

General

Imprint:	Crc Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Spon Research
Release date:	May 2019
First published:	2019
Editors:	Malena Ingemansson Havenvid • Ase Linne • Lena E. Bygballe • Chris Harty
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	306
ISBN-13:	978-0-8153-6322-4
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Business strategy Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Management & management techniques > Project management Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Management of specific areas > General Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Construction & heavy industry > Construction industry Books > Professional & Technical > Civil engineering, surveying & building > Building construction & materials > General
LSN:	0-8153-6322-2
Barcode:	9780815363224

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