eprintid: 10082928
rev_number: 22
eprint_status: archive
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datestamp: 2019-10-10 16:29:51
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type: article
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Çıdık, MS
creators_name: Boyd, D
title: "Shared sense of purposefulness": a new concept to understand the practice of coordinating design in construction
ispublished: pub
divisions: UCL
divisions: B04
divisions: C04
divisions: F37
keywords: Design coordination, design management, sensemaking, organizational analysis, practice-based study, construction
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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.
date: 2020
date_type: published
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1080/01446193.2019.1593471
oa_status: green
full_text_type: other
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 1686586
doi: 10.1080/01446193.2019.1593471
lyricists_name: Cidik, Mustafa
lyricists_id: MSCID92
actors_name: Cidik, Mustafa
actors_id: MSCID92
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: Construction Management and Economics
volume: 38
number: 1
pagerange: 18-31
citation:        Çıdık, MS;    Boyd, D;      (2020)    "Shared sense of purposefulness": a new concept to understand the practice of coordinating design in construction.                   Construction Management and Economics , 38  (1)   pp. 18-31.    10.1080/01446193.2019.1593471 <https://doi.org/10.1080/01446193.2019.1593471>.       Green open access   
 
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