Daniel Sage's research while affiliated with Loughborough University and other places
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Publications (36)
Strong emergency collaboration is commonly assumed to involve a joyful passage to trust and confidence. Organizations are said to collaborate when fear and suspicion are overcome. Thus, negative, or sad, affects—such as anger, fear, disdain, despair, frustration—appear opposed to emergency collaboration. In this hybrid theoretical‐empirical paper w...
This article reports on a participant ethnography of a people analytics (PA) team operating within the human resources (HR) function of a European multinational corporation at the cutting edge of PA development. Despite their analytical expertise, this team experienced significant dissonance between their desired image of PA work and the actualitie...
There has been a longstanding concern among construction scholars and practitioners in classifying construction innovations, whether as “incremental” or “radical,” “technological” or “organizational,” “product” or “process”. In this paper we extend this interest in classification to examine what classification work accomplishes within construction...
The aim of this article is to explore sensemaking and learning processes with and through affective atmospheres. We engage with recent research within the ‘affective turn’ across the social sciences and humanities to conceptualize the significance of quasi-autonomous affective atmospheres that emanate from, and also condition, collectives of humans...
Research into outer space has burgeoned in recent years, through the work of scholars in the social sciences, arts and humanities. Geographers have made a series of useful contributions to this emergent work, but scholarship remains fairly limited in comparison to other disciplinary fields. This forum explains the scholarly roots of these new geogr...
In this paper we explore the role of affective encounters between human and non-human bodies in the proliferation of new technologies within and across work organizations. Our exploration challenges not only the long-standing rationalism within studies of technological innovation but the anthropocentrism of burgeoning studies of technology, innovat...
Sage and Vitry’s chapter engage with actor-network theory (ANT) and housing development to contribute to theories of place, especially those concerning relational place-making. They develop their conceptual argument for an ANT theory of place through empirical analysis of the early stages of the Garendon Park housebuilding construction project loca...
Sage, Justesen, Dainty, Tryggestad and Mouritsen’s chapter examines the role that animals play within human organizational boundary work. They thus challenge the latent anthropocentricism in many, if not most, theories of organization that locate animal agencies outside the boundary work that is said to constitute organizing. Inspired by actor–netw...
Sage and Vitry introduce this collection by first elaborating how construction has been historically circumscribed as an object of knowledge serving technical, managerial, physical and financial means and ends; thus marginalized as an object for social sciences and humanities scholarship. They then critically interrogate the extent to which the ‘so...
This edited collection explores building construction as an inspiring, yet often overlooked, place to develop new knowledge about the development of human societies. Eschewing dominant engineering and management perspectives on construction, the book is purposefully broad in its scope, both empirically and theoretically, as reflecting the rich unde...
Alexander Styhre recently challenged Construction Management and Engineering (CME) scholarship to develop a stronger contribution to debates around materiality in mainstream management and organization studies. The rationale for his challenge is that CME scholars have a unique engagement with an important materiality – the built environment – that...
This paper examines the organizational phenomena of long-term projects. While the research literature frames projects as “temporary organizations”, megaprojects may have very long initiation and delivery phases, which may last for many years, sometimes even decades, and they deliver capital assets that are used for decades or centuries. Instead of...
Communities have emerged as a principal strategic target for contemporary resilience programmes. Going beyond community preparedness campaigns, which aimed to responsibilise individual citizens to dangers, community resilience programmes aim to intervene in, and enhance, the social relations binding a community together in order to promote resilien...
Establishing long-term relationships, collaborating and making decisions with suppliers has become a major requisite for firms' competitiveness and for implementing innovation. In a relatively unbounded context, such as the construction industry, innovation takes place across a network of loosely coupled organisations. Thus, cooperation and efficie...
Concepts of doing, and undoing, gender have become increasingly prevalent within studies of sex-typed work. However, these concepts, as currently figured and applied, contain a significant analytical lacuna: they tend not to register changes in the sex-typing of work. In this study we engage this research gap by addressing the changing sex-typing o...
In this article, we examine the role that animals play within human organizational boundary work. In so doing, we challenge the latent anthropocentricism in many, if not most, theories of organization that locate animal agencies outside the boundary work that is said to constitute organizing. In developing this argument, we draw together diverse st...
Expertise is commonly understood to be a distinct, even defining, aspect of being human: an attribute related to our efficacies to come to know and influence the, mostly non-human, world around us. In construction, expertise is commonly defined as the acquisition of skills and knowledge related to new technical processes, organizational routines, h...
The study of operations strategy (OS) in production organisations has largely focused on the content of high-level strategies, and less on their practical enactment. Little attention has been paid to the middle managers who mediate the space between the strategic intent of production organisations and their operational realities. The role and strat...
In this paper we explore the scaling of resilience policy and practice not as an effect upon infrastructure but as enacted through infrastructure. Drawing on Foucault's topological analyses of governmental power, especially his elaboration of its coeval centripetal and centrifugal flows, we argue that understanding the scaling of resilience policy...
The resilience of any system, human or natural, centres on its capacity to adapt its structure, but not necessarily its function, to a new configuration in response to long-term socio-ecological change. In the long term, therefore, enhancing resilience involves more than simply improving a system's ability to resist an immediate threat or to recove...
Across many construction projects, and especially infrastructure projects, efforts to mitigate potential loss of biodiversity and habitat are significant concerns, and at times politically controversial. And yet, thus far, very little research has addressed the interplay of humans and animals within construction projects. Instead those interested i...
This paper explores the organizational phenomena that we have labelled as ‘enduring projects.’ Enduring projects possess many of the features of temporary organizations but have very long lifetimes: typically, enduring projects last for decades. We use empirics gathered in a study of European megaprojects to characterise the ‘enduring project’ phen...
In project management, failure is often assumed to be evidence of deficient management: a problem that can be overcome by better management. Drawing on qualitative research within UK construction projects we examine how four different theoretical approaches (positivism, structural Marxism, interpretivism and actor–network theory) all challenge this...
Across many construction projects, and especially infrastructure projects, efforts to mitigate the potential loss of biodiversity and habitat are significant, and at times controversial. In our paper we do not propose to gauge the success or failure of this effort; rather we are interested in fleshing out some conceptual approaches via Actor-Networ...
The 2005 terrorist attacks in London and 2007 flooding throughout the UK revealed the shortcomings of the UK Government approach of ‘governing through resilience’ in practice: low levels of stakeholder co-ordination, lack of understanding about critical infrastructure interdependencies, and little attention to long-term adaptation. We found that de...
In this paper, I seek to develop a more direct, sustained and critical engagement between social and cultural geography and contemporary construction industries. In setting out this agenda, I focus on the UK construction industry and a body of work outside of geography describing how the UK construction industry evidences and maintains a problemati...
In this paper, we seek to contribute to debates into new modalities of power within project-based organizations (PBOs), and specifically architectural practices. Using a targeted ethnography, we explore specific episodes within the workflow of an architectural practice. Here, we explore how imperatives for creativity and collaboration are reconcile...
A growing body of work emerging from the management and organizational studies literature is the ‘Strategy-as-Practice’ (SaP) perspective, which focuses on the ways in which strategy is actually enacted within organizational settings. This perspective is used to examine the diffusion of lean construction. In recent years lean construction has grown...
Our paper addresses how building design elucidates the connection between two definitions of politics: 'Big Politics' and micropolitics. We will seek to examine how these two versions of politics are imbricated; how, in other words, codified ideologies and political institutions circulate within the everyday practices by which new actors and sites...
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to question why current thinking towards project complexity ignores the role of objects in achieving social order and transformation. An alternative, but complementary, approach to address project complexities, drawing upon actor‐network theory (ANT), is offered to redress this concern.
Design/methodology/appro...
Various critical authors have questioned the salience, efficacy and power effects of formal project management bodies of knowledge (PMBoKs). As a result project management knowledge tools are increasingly being conceptualized along more flexible, adaptable, reflexive, democratic and informal terms. A central driver for this shift is that PM knowled...
This paper offers a theoretical commentary on some of the new directions in project management theory offered by the critical projects movement. Specifically it examines the implications of a specific approach to knowledge – dialectics – that is implicitly mobilized within this movement. It examines the dialectic provenance of much of this thinking...
Citations
... Improving HR operations refers to enhancing HR processes and reducing process time compared to organizational interactions without the use of HR analytics (Larsson & Edwards, 2021), and is a determinant that is mentioned in five studies (e.g., Angrave et al., 2016;Gelbard et al., 2018;Leonardi & Contractor, 2018). Addressing business challenges and key strategic issues, which entails the generation of valuable insights for business and strategic functions, is another important determinant in the implementation of HR analytics Jörden et al., 2021;Minbaeva, 2021). A total of 21 studies, constituting 23.6% of the comprehensive study pool, have underscored the significance of this aspect. ...
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... Categorizing or classifying brings about clarity on a subject in a structured manner [20]. Classification is important to ensure construction innovations are understood and accomplished [21]. Classification and categorization in practice is being motivated by taxonomies in order to identify the characteristics of innovation and the degree of innovativeness [22]. ...
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... I have also showed that the term of resistance was often used in Medellin when interviewees were asked to define how they perceived resilience. Accordingly, scholars have been increasingly looking at the interweaving of the two concepts (Shamsuddin, 2020;Neocleous, 2013;Zebrowski & Sage, 2018;Cretney, 2018). In an edited volume entitled The Resilience Machine, some contributors demonstrated how the politics of resilience could open up space for resistance, ruptures, dissent and alternative ontologies, but how at the same time such projects could be transformed by the rigid metrics of deliveries and become co-opted into dominant neoliberal strategies (Lawrence, Davoudi, & Bohland, 2018). ...
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... Thereby, in the experiment the researchers consider aesthetic categories and the influence of aesthetics and embodied movements on sensemaking processes (e.g., rhythms, melodies, patterns, stillness). This aims at realizing experimentations that allow identifying the relevance of embodiment and aesthetics in terms of sensemaking, sensegiving, and sensebreaking [47], [22]. The third phase aims to take the insights from the first two phases further, in order to connect the role of the body and aesthetics in sensemaking of change processes, entangling Weick's idea of change poets [49] with the role of the body and aesthetics in sensemaking. ...
... More concretely, we mobilize the actor-network theory (ANT) as a theoretical framework to understand better the process of constructing learning as part of the networking process (Sage et al., 2020) to produce innovations. To do so, we examine three innovative projects undertaken within three teams of an engineering company. ...
... Over 25 years ago, Langford et al. (1995) noted a substantial shortage of leadership studies in construction research and argued that this might be explained by the lack of understanding of the industry on the part of social scientists and a lack of understanding of the social sciences on the part of those engaged with the industry. While leadership studies in construction have been slowly growing since then (Toor and Ofori 2007), it appears as if the argument still holds insofar as the contributions reflect a dominant research tradition in construction that is grounded in quantitative and positivistic methods, rather than the methodological richness that characterizes the social sciences (Dainty 2007(Dainty , 2008Fellows 2010;Sage and Vitry 2018). A scrutiny of the studies that brought the topical area of leadership into construction research shows a prominent preference for research designs and methods that rely on quantitative testing of established leadership models, such as Fiedler's contingency model (Bresnen et al. 1986;Seymour and Abd Elhaleem 1991), Fiedler's least preferred coworker (LPC) questionnaire (Fellows et al. 2003), behaviorally anchored rating scales (BARS) (Dulaimi and Langford 1999), the multifactor leadership questionnaire (MLQ) model (Chan and Chan 2005;Butler and Chinowsky 2006;Ozorovskaja et al. 2007), the managerial style questionnaire (MSQ) model (Giritli and Oraz 2004), or the Kouzes-Posner Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI) (Skipper and Bell 2006). ...
... Secondly, the role of corporations-rather than states-in leading the commercial space race is taken to be indicative of contemporary ideologies of neoliberal outsourcing or libertarianism, rather than as a continuation of colonial history as such. Analyses of Silicon Valley space colonists' political ideas thus tend to orient their critiques within the literature on contemporary libertarianism, neoliberalism, or technoutopianism (Dunnett et al. 2019;Johnson 2020;Tutton 2021;Valentine 2012), largely congruent with scholarly analyses of the Californian Ideology in interpreting the ideology of Silicon Valley more broadly (Barbrook and Cameron 1996;Crandall, Brown, and McMahon 2021;Ferrari 2020;Ray 2021b;Turner 2008). Less literature has explicitly examined the colonial underpinnings of Silicon Valley elites' political ideology, with some commendable exceptions (Little and Winch 2022;Rubenstein 2022). ...
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... Thus, these journal quality lists can be seen as panopticon-like structures (Prasad, 2015;Sage, 2017;Tourish and Willmott, 2015). As Prasad (2015: 109) indicates, "these structures serve stringently to demarcate between that scholarship which qualifies as being 'worthy' (and thus meriting recognition and rewards) and that scholarship which does not". ...
... These conditions of complexity and uncertainty have often been observed by researchers in infrastructure projects that are large scale, run over a long-term schedule, and are non-repetitive in nature (Lahdenperä, 2009;Brookes et al., 2017). Such circumstances within large-scale projects often lead to opportunistic behaviour among project stakeholders due to changes in project conditions over time, incomplete contract details and unaligned stakeholder goals (Gil, 2009;Lahdenperä, 2017;Galvin et al., 2021). ...
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... By offering narrow possibilities for change before a disaster, resilience has been critiqued as falsely "creat [ing] stakeholders in need of empowerment" (Grove, 2014). This has led to debate within the literature regarding whether communities and networks serve as needed sources of enhanced resilience and recovery (Aldrich, 2018;Sou, 2019;Zebrowski and Sage, 2017) or as corrupt and exclusive centers of disaster capitalism that prevent resilience (Imperiale and Vanclay, 2020). ...
