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This book highlights the
connectivity of construction actors, resources, and activities as fundamental for understanding how innovation takes place, and how it can be pushed forward.
List of contents
- In the pursuit of a new understanding of innovation in the construction industry – the significance of connectivity
Malena Ingemansson Havenvid, Åse Linné, Lena E. Bygballe and Chris Harty
- Forming innovative projects in sustainable construction – how socio-technical connectivity shapes the building project and its context
Mårten Hugosson, Kristin Stevik, Per Søberg and Kjell Tryggestad
- Innovative effects in the Swedish construction sector – the case of BIM in the New Karolinska Solna Hospital project
Åse Linné
- Entrepreneurial innovation in the construction sector: overcoming process discontinuities in projects – who’s in charge?
Will Hughes and Lars Stehn
- Construction logistics innovation: tracing connectivity from activity interdependencies
Kajsa Hulthén and Viktoria Sundquist
- Cross-fertilization among construction and clinical actors: the dynamics of health care construction projects
Alessandra Tzannis, Silvia Biraghi and Rossella C. Gambetti
- Innovation among project islands – a question of handling interdependencies through bridging
Malena Ingemansson Havenvid, Lena E. Bygballe and Håkan Håkansson
- Construction projects as vehicles for health care innovation?
Judit Simon, Balázs Révész, Tibor Mandják, Zsuzsanna Szalkai, and Erzsébet Hetesi
- Innovation in strategic capabilities of municipal clients – some evidence from a Swedish case study
Mårten Hugosson and Tomas Nord
- Organising communities for construction innovation - examples from the French and Swedish construction sectors
Florence Crespin-Mazet, Malena Ingemansson Havenvid and Åse Linné
- The connectivity of domestic and international actors in product innovation – the case of Polish windows manufacturing
Milena Ratajczak-Mrozek
- Narratives of innovation that address climate change agenda in the construction sector
Natalya Sergeeva and Carmel Lindkvist
- Activity systems and innovation in project-based production: the case of construction
Finn Orstavik
- Tracing the connectivity of innovation across time and space
Malena Ingemansson Havenvid, Åse Linné, Lena E. Bygballe and Chris Harty
About the author
Malena Ingemansson Havenvid is Associate Professor in construction project management at KTH the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Her research places an inter-organizational perspective on innovation and technology development in various industries, nowadays foremost in construction. She has published in Construction Management and Economics, Technovation, Industrial Marketing Management, Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing, and The IMP Journal.
Åse Linné is a researcher at Uppsala University, and her main research interest is related to understanding innovation and renewal in various industries. She has published in the following journals: Construction Management and Economics, Industrial Marketing Management and The IMP Journal.
Lena E. Bygballe is Associate Professor at the Department of Strategy at BI Norwegian Business School and head of BI’s Centre for the Construction Industry. With an inter-organizational perspective, her research focuses on innovation, organizational development and project delivery models in the construction industry. She has published in Construction Management and Economics, International Journal of Project Management, Industrial Marketing Management, Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management, and The IMP Journal.
Chris Harty is Professor of Technology and Organisation and head of the School of the Built Environment at the University of Reading. His research contributions are in the areas of understanding innovation in the built environment and organizational processes, applying socio-technical systems oriented approaches to organizations and projects, and the design, implementation and use of information systems, and he has published widely in these areas.
Summary
This book highlights the connectivity of construction actors, resources, and activities as fundamental for understanding how innovation takes place, and how it can be pushed forward.
