Shared sense of purposefulness”: a new concept to understand the practice of coordinating design in construction
Cidik, Mustafa Selcuk and Boyd, David (2019) Shared sense of purposefulness”: a new concept to understand the practice of coordinating design in construction. Construction Management and Economics. ISSN 0144-6193
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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.
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| Additional Information: | “This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Construction Management and Economics on 9th April 2019 available online at: https://doi.org/10.1080/01446193.2019.1593471 | ||||||
| Identification Number: | https://doi.org/10.1080/01446193.2019.1593471 | ||||||
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Design coordination, design management, sensemaking, organizational analysis, practice-based study, construction | ||||||
| Subjects: | CAH13 - architecture, building and planning > CAH13-01 - architecture, building and planning > CAH13-01-01 - architecture CAH13 - architecture, building and planning > CAH13-01 - architecture, building and planning > CAH13-01-02 - building CAH13 - architecture, building and planning > CAH13-01 - architecture, building and planning > CAH13-01-04 - planning (urban, rural and regional) |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment > College of Built Environment | ||||||
| Depositing User: | Euan Scott | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 24 May 2019 12:34 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 20 Jun 2024 11:45 | ||||||
| URI: | https://www.open-access.bcu.ac.uk/id/eprint/7509 |
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