eprintid: 10082928 rev_number: 22 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/10/08/29/28 datestamp: 2019-10-10 16:29:51 lastmod: 2021-10-29 22:57:56 status_changed: 2019-10-10 16:29:51 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 note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. 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 document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10082928/1/Shared_sense_of_purposefulness-AM.pdf