Managing Knowledge in the Construction Industry

Zusatztext "Managing Knowledge in the Construction Industry provides a challenging and stimulating account! invoking theoretical resources that are sometimes surprising! but consistently leading to interesting and useful insights.""As a theoretically sophisticated! yet empirically grounded! window into the lived experience of various actors in the construction sector! the book has a great deal to offer."- Nick Marshall! Centre for Research in Innovation Management! University of Brighton Informationen zum Autor Alexander Styhre is Professor of Operations Managementin the School of Technology Management! Chalmers University of Technology! Sweden. He is the author! co-author and editorof thirteen books in the field of organization theory! includingThe Innovative Bureaucracy: Bureaucracy in the Age of Fluidity (Routledge! 2007). Zusammenfassung Shows how the concept of knowledge can make sense in the construction industry, an industry which can be viewed in essence as being engaged in the material transformation of 'nature into buildings'. This book explores different businesses including a medium sized construction firm, and Wingardh Architecture, Sweden's prestigious architecture firm. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Managing Knowledge in the Construction Industry 2. Site Manager Work and the Use of Coaching 3. Architectural Work as Practice: Materialized Semiosis 4. Knowing the Concrete: Knowledge and Skills in a Specialist Construction Company 5. Knowledge and Construction Work: Concluding Remarks

Product details

• Authors: Alexander Styhre, Alexander Styhre, Alexander (Chalmers University of Technolo Styhre, Alexander (Chalmers University of Technology Styhre, Styhre Alexander
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.02.2009
• EAN: 9780415463447
• ISBN: 978-0-415-46344-7
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Spon Research; Spon Research
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; Economics, Business and Management, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Decision-Making & Problem Solving, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Construction / General, Business & management, The environment, Building construction & materials, Building construction and materials