Simplistic and vague assumptions and sometimes outright misunderstandings on the nature of construction innovation and its implications are an obstacle to clear thinking and reasoning about the important innovation challenges facing the construction industry. This book gets to grips with the real–life complexity of construction innovation, and does this whilst avoiding simply reproducing the complexities of real–life construction innovation within the book itself. This book develops simpler and more general concepts, in order to make sense of what is the reality of construction innovation and takes a fresh look at what is actually hidden inside the broad term “construction innovation”. Rather than glossing over difficult conceptual issues, this book instead looks explicitly at the actual challenges that conceptual issues entail and seeks to open up fresh intellectual space for reflection on construction innovation. The the editors intentionally coalesce a wide range of diverse perspectives on innovation in the built environment. Unlike other texts which have examined innovation from a particular theoretical standpoint, this book examines innovation from a plurality of positions and through different conceptual lenses. The book reveals the multiplicity of ways in which innovation has been conceptualised within a construction context, and what each theoretical perspective offers to our understanding of the way that the construction sector addresses the need to innovate at both project and organizational levels. Although the insights provided are necessarily grounded in particular geographical, socio–economic and cultural contexts, within this book they will be organised in relation to their theoretical provenance and contribution. The book concludes with a discussion of the principal emergent and recurrent themes which pervade the contributions and which provide fresh directions for future research in this area. INDICE: Preface About the Authors 1. Introduction 2. Incentives for innovation in construction 3. Built–in innovation and the ambiguity of designing accessibility 4. Stakeholder integration champions and innovation in the built environment 5. Grassroots innovation in the construction industry 6. Stakeholder integration champions and innovation in the built environment 7. An industrial network perspective on innovation in construction 8. Innovation diffusion across firms 9. Clients shaping construction innovation 10. Innovation in road building: Removing obstacles for diffusion of novel building products 11. Innovating for integration: Clients as drivers of industry improvement 12. Project delivery systems and innovation: The case of US road building 13. The leitmotif of building–products innovation in Finland: From commercial technology exploitation to sustainable development Index
- ISBN: 978-1-118-65553-5
- Editorial: Wiley–Blackwell
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 240
- Fecha Publicación: 23/01/2015
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés
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