Managing Change in Construction Projects

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A Knowledge-Based Approach

By Sepani Senaratne and Martin Sexton

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Managing Change in Construction Projects: a knowledge-based approach explores change management in construction as a knowledge-intensive process. It shows how teams share, create, and capture collective knowledge during change events to improve project outcomes and industry performance. Based on case studies from collaborative project teams, the book offers new theoretical insights and practical models that integrate both IT and social approaches to managing change effectively.
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Ideal for advanced management students, construction project managers, and professionals seeking a research-based understanding of change management in construction.

This book offers a new perspective on construction project change by viewing the process of change management as a knowledge-intensive activity, where team members bring their tacit and explicit knowledge into the situation; share, create and capture this collective knowledge for future re-use in similar situations.

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Managing Change in Construction Projects: a knowledge-based approach offers a new perspective on construction project change by viewing the process of change management as a knowledge-intensive activity, where team members bring their tacit and explicit knowledge into the situation; share, create and capture this collective knowledge for future re-use in similar situations.

Through this knowledge-based approach, construction teams can successfully resolve and learn from change events, leading to an overall improved performance of the industry.

The book will make a significant contribution to our understanding of construction project change by offering new theoretical and practical insights and models grounded in results of case studies conducted within two collaborative construction project team settings.

By demonstrating how the social construction of knowledge works in construction settings, the authors challenge the prevailing change management solutions based on 'hard' IT approaches. They put forward a balanced view that incorporates both IT-based and socially constructed approaches to effective management of construction project change.

Helps construction managers to improve and learn through the process of construction project change
Presents new theoretical models and offers practical guidelines
First research-based book to directly address project change from a knowledge-based perspective
Draws on detailed studies with construction companies, including Ballast Construction and Kier Construction
Encourages a move from the information driven, process integrated approach to a knowledge-based view

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Reviews note the book is a well-written, research-driven publication suitable for advanced students and high-level planners in construction management. One review highlights its style as resembling a major research thesis, indicating depth and rigor in its coverage.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781444335156

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 04 February 2011

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 17.0mm

Width: 180.0mm

Height: 254.0mm

Weight: 599g

Pages: 200

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Education & Reference Engineering, Technology & Agriculture Martin Sexton Non-Fiction Sepani Senaratne

About the Author

Sepani Senaratne, Senior Lecturer, Department of BuildingEconomics, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka Research Director of the department research unit - BuildingEconomics and Management Research Unit (BEMRU) and the leader ofBEMRU research group on 'Knowledge management and OrganisationalLearning.' Main contact from University of Moratuwa for theinstitutional membership of CIB (International Council forResearch and Innovation in Building and Construction). Professor Martin Sexton, Director of Research, School ofConstruction Management and Engineering, University of Reading,UK Director of Research for the School of Construction Management andEngineering. Leads the 'green innovation and transition management'research theme across the School. Joint Coordinator of theInternational Council for Research and Innovation in Building andConstruction (CIB) Working Commission 65 (Organisation andManagement of Construction). The CIB is the leading world widenetwork of approximately 7000 researchers in the built environmentdiscipline with over forty working commissions. WC 65 is one of theCIB's largest groupings with around 150 members from 45countries.