Martin Loosemore's research while affiliated with University of Technology Sydney and other places
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Publications (188)
The Australian construction industry is facing a mental health crisis; poor mental health indicators are significantly higher than the all-industry average. Despite a growing body of research into the mental health of the industry’s workforce, concerns have been raised about its alignment with regulatory developments in this area. This raises quest...
This chapter presents a holistic investigation into construction culture from an organisation studies as well as project management perspective, mobilising the concept of toxic project cultures as a novel conceptual lens to explore new ways to transform the construction industry into a more dynamic, innovative, and socially responsible sector. All...
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Innovation research in construction has almost exclusively focused on economic and technological innovation. In contrast, the emerging concept of social innovation has been largely ignored. This is despite the global growth of social procurement policies which incentivize construction firms to innovate in providing employment opportunities for equi...
Indigenous procurement policies (IPPs) have created more business and employment opportunities for Indigenous Australians. IPPs in Australia require contractors tendering on government-funded projects to include more Indigenous businesses and employees in supply chains. This type of social procurement, as it is called, is a new approach to addressi...
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This research uses contingency theory and Venkatraman’s concept of moderating fit to explore how key project stakeholders (clients, consultants and suppliers) influence project performance from the perspective of small and medium contractors in the Jordanian construction industry.
Design/methodology/approach
An anonymous structured survey...
This article addresses a gap in construction project performance measurement research from the perspective of small-medium-sized construction contractors in developing countries. Focussing on small-medium-sized contractors in the Jordanian construction industry, a survey of 231 Jordanian construction professionals was undertaken to investigate how...
The rapid development of subway projects in China presents significant safety risks to those involved. Building on the previous empirical research that identified and classified the safety risks of these projects, the aim of this paper is to assess the safety risk management performance in Chinese subway construction projects from a multistakeholde...
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Social procurement is becoming an increasing policy focus for governments around the world as they seek to incentivise new collaborative partnerships with private organisations in industries like construction to meet their social obligations. The limited construction management research in this area shows that the successful implementation...
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This research addresses the lack of project management research into social procurement by exploring the risks and opportunities of social procurement from a cross-sector collaboration perspective.
Design/methodology/approach
A content analysis of five focus groups conducted with thirty-five stakeholders involved in the implementation of a...
Social procurement is re-emerging as an innovative collaborative policy tool for governments around the world to leverage their construction supply chains to help them address intransigent social problems such as long-term unemployment. Such policies challenge deeply rooted institutional norms and structures in the construction industry and researc...
There has been a recent proliferation of social procurement policies in Australia that target the construction industry. This is mirrored in many other countries, and the nascent research in this area shows that these policies are being implemented by an emerging group of largely undefined professionals who are often forced to create their own role...
Safety performance in the Chinese construction projects remains poor in comparison to other developed countries. While a considerable body of research has accumulated to explain why accident and incident rates remain high in China, research into safety climate in Chinese major construction projects remains scant. To address this gap in knowledge, a...
Social procurement policies are becoming an increasingly popular tool for construction project clients to meet their corporate social responsibility objectives. This research employs New Institutional Theory to investigate the coercive, mimetic and normative drivers behind the adoption of social procurement policies in Australian construction proje...
International migrant and refugee numbers are at record levels and continue to grow. The construction industry is a major source of potential employment for migrants and refugees and emerging social and sustainable procurement policies in many parts of the world are also requiring construction supply chains to employ refugees and migrants as a cond...
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The aim of this paper is to explore the situational and individual factors which motivate entrepreneurs to start a business in the construction industry.
Design/methodology/approach
Semi-structured interviews are undertaken with twenty-five entrepreneurs in the Australian construction industry.
Findings
Findings highlight the importance o...
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In Australia, as in many other countries, refugees are over-represented in the ranks of the unemployed, under-employed and precariously employed and often become frustrated in their attempts to secure work. Despite the construction industry being a major potential source of employment for refugees, there has been a surprising lack of resear...
Homelessness is a serious and growing problem in the UK, exacerbated by the COVID-19 crisis. The latest figures estimate that 160,000 households are at risk of the worst forms of homelessness. Employment is widely recognised as being critical to reducing homelessness, yet there has been no research into the role that the construction industry, as a...
Purpose – Advanced construction technologies (ACTs) are transforming infrastructure projects, yet there
has been little research into and theorization of the process by which these innovations are diffused. The
purpose of this paper is to address this paucity of research by exploring the problems of information
asymmetries between vendors and custo...
The construction industry is known to be highly masculinised and to have work practices detrimental to employees’ wellbeing. Drawing on feminist institutional theory and a rapid ethnographic approach in two construction multinationals in Australia, we examine the relationship between the gendered nature of construction and workplace wellbeing for p...
The global construction industry has a poor productivity record compared with other industries. While there have been many studies into the factors that influence construction productivity, the role of industrial relations (IR) in construction productivity has been neglected. This is despite countries with highly unionised workforces, such as Austr...
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COVID-19 has created or amplified economic and social crises internationally. Australia entered its first recession in 30 years and saw a significant rise in unemployment. In response, Australian governments have increased their commitments to infrastructure construction to stimulate the national economy and combined this with new social procuremen...
While there is an emerging body of research on social procurement in construction, there is little empirical research from a facilities management perspective. This is despite the enormous untapped potential of the facilities management sector to create social value in the communities in which they operate. To address this gap in research, this pap...
The Indonesian construction industry is the second largest in Asia and accounts for over 30% of all occupational injuries in the country. Despite the size of the industry, there is a lack of safety research in this context. This research, therefore, aims to assess safety climate and develop a framework to improve safety in the Indonesian constructi...
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Social procurement policies are an emerging policy instrument being used by governments around the world to leverage infrastructure and construction spending to address intractable social problems in the communities they represent. The relational nature of social procurement policies requires construction firms to develop new collaborative...
Purpose-The image of the construction industry in China, as in many other countries, is tarnished by its poor safety record. With the rapid development of subway systems in Chinese urban areas, construction workers are being exposed to new risks which are poorly understood and managed. Subway construction projects are large scale and scattered over...
Poor safety is a perennial problem for the construction industry worldwide. The concept of safety climate has been strongly linked to safety performance, yet inconsistent methodologies make international comparisons problematic. In addressing this gap in research, a comparative safety climate survey of five hundred and fifteen construction operativ...
Governments of highly developed western nations with colonised Indigenous populations such as Australia, Canada and South Africa are increasingly turning to social procurement policies in an attempt to solve social inequities between Indigenous people and other citizens. They seek to use policies and funds attached to infrastructure development and...
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This paper responds to the need for more construction project management research in the emerging field of social procurement. It contributes by exploring the potential value of cross-sector collaboration and project-based intermediation in meeting new social procurement imperatives.
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A thematic exploratory case...
In contributing a missing qualitative dimension to the emerging relationship-based approach to construction project management, social network theories are used to present a thematic analysis of interviews with senior construction project managers. The results provide new insights into the key stakeholders and social structures which determine cons...
The construction industry is the most male‐dominated in Australia, despite companies implementing formal policies and initiatives to address this. While previous research has examined the role of workplace culture as a barrier to women in the industry, our research investigates the role informal institutions play in obstructing gender equity in con...
Too many ex-offenders are condemned to a life of unemployment, under-employment and benefit-dependency with significant ongoing costs to themselves, the economy and to wider society. To address this growing and intransigent problem, recent public policy innovations have led to the re-emergence of collaborative instruments such as social procurement...
Social procurement policies place new requirements on subcontractors to create employment opportunities for people suffering disadvantage. However, the subcontractor’s voice is largely absent from the social procurement debate, despite employing the majority of people in the construction industry. Addressing this gap in social procurement research,...
In recent years there has been growing interest in how project management theory can both inform and be informed by disaster response and recovery projects. Addressing the lack of empirical research into how trust forms within such projects, this exploratory study mobilises swift trust theory to investigate the process of trust formation within a m...
Contributing to the development of employment requirements as an emerging theme in social procurement theory and addressing the evidence vacuum in social procurement research and policy relating to the employment of ex-offenders, the results of a survey of 94 sub-contractors in the Australian construction industry are reported. Results indicate a r...
Indigenous procurement policies encourage the construction sector to provide new training, employment and business opportunities for Indigenous people suffering from economic and social disadvantage. However, the success of these policies is often distorted by the failure of policy evaluations to account for Indigenous perceptions of social value....
Despite evidence that a safe and healthy workforce is essential to construction project productivity, the resources and time committed to safety are often perceived as counterproductive. This study explores the multiple institutional logics underpinning the duality between safety and productivity in the construction industry. Specifically, it explo...
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The purpose of this paper is to assess, compare and explain safety climate differences between the Indonesian and Australian construction industries.
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The paper reports a comparative safety climate survey of 415 construction personnel working in the Australian and Indonesia construction industries.
Findings
Surp...
Workforce planning in the construction industry too often ignores the symbiotic relationship between employee and employer objectives by overly concentrating on corporate objectives such as maximizing productivity at the expense of construction workers' career development needs. Overall, the consequence of this approach is suboptimal performance. T...
Poor safety is a perennial problem for the construction industry worldwide. While there has been a large amount of research on construction safety training and its importance in developing positive safety attitudes, much of the evidence has been anecdotal. To address this gap in knowledge, this paper presents the results of an attitudinal survey of...
Despite the rapid growth of the Indonesian construction industry and its significance to the national economy, health and safety in the industry remains poor. This research focuses on safety climate, a popular indicator of health and safety performance that has not been adequately investigated in the Indonesian construction industry despite the siz...
This chapter discusses how the socially constructed meaning of ‘safety’ in a developing society differs from that in a developed society. We take a grounded theory approach to compare the contents and consequences of sensemaking on safety between Chongqing in mainland China and Hong Kong. We find that in the context of Chongqing, safety means worke...
There is a widely accepted assumption in the construction literature that the industry is highly masculinised. However, there has been a surprising lack of empirical evidence around workers’ own attitudes towards masculinity in the sector. Addressing this lack of research, a survey to measure construction site operatives’ attitudes towards traditio...
Social procurement is becoming an increasingly important requirement in the delivery of private- and public- sector construction projects across the world, yet there is relatively little research done in this area. Mobilising Furneaux and Barraket’s social procurement typology, semi-structured interviews were conducted with senior managers from eig...
The strategies used by vendors to disseminate information about new construction site technologies such as robotics, drones, and driverless excavators are important in their successful adoption and, ultimately, to the productivity of the construction industry. However, little research has been reported regarding the strategies that construction sit...
In countries like Australia, Canada and South Africa with large Indigenous populations, governments are increasingly turning to social procurement to solve entrenched social problems like Indigenous disadvantage. Social procurement works by leveraging construction and infrastructure spending to encourage construction firms to give back to the commu...
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Research into the construction industry’s adoption of modern equipment technologies, such as remote-controlled trucks, excavators and drones, has been neglected in comparison to the significant body of research into the adoption of information technology in construction. Construction research has also neglected to adequately consider the i...
Chinese companies are investing heavily in overseas construction and property assets. In Australia, and in many other countries such as the United States and United Kingdom, this has generated an emotive and polarized debate about the risks and opportunities posed to local industry and to wider national interests. To explore the social and cognitiv...
The construction industry has a major social, cultural, environmental and economic impact on the environment in which it operates. While corporate social responsibility (CSR) research in construction is growing, it is highly UK-centric and there has been no comparative research of construction industry CSR practices between different countries. Add...
Interest in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is growing in the construction sector. In response to societal changes, construction professionals and the businesses they work in are expected to contribute positively to the environments and communities in which they build. Hitherto, it appears that there has been little research in mapping out th...
Emerging social procurement imperatives are driving new forms of cross-sector collaboration between private, public and social enterprise sectors in the construction industry. Yet there is little understanding of how and why social enterprises and private construction firms collaborate in meeting new social procurement imperatives and of the instit...
Communities negatively affected by construction projects are becoming increasingly empowered, organised and willing to engage in protest. The importance of communities as project stakeholders is widely recognized in the project management literature, but there is little empirical research to help project managers understand how to effectively engag...
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The purpose of this paper is to address the gap in knowledge by exploring the role of customers and vendors in diffusion of modern equipment technologies into the construction industry.
Design/methodology/approach
To address the need to consider both vendors and customers in the innovation diffusion process and the need for in-depth cros...
This paper addresses the question of how and why social enterprises and private for profit firms collaborate to co-create social value in the construction industry and what institutional and organisational factors shape these practices. It does this using a documentary analysis and semi structured interviews with senior leaders of three constructio...
This paper argues that current methods of social impact assessment fail to adequately articulate the social impact of Indigenous procurement policies, presenting an overly optimistic and westernised view of success which does not align with Indigenous perspectives of social value. Using strain theory as a theoretical base, we show how social procur...
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The purpose of this paper is to explore the barriers to entry for Indigenous businesses into the Australian construction industry.
Design/methodology/approach
A national survey and were conducted with 33 Indigenous businesses operating in the Australian construction industry.
Findings
The findings show that Indigenous enterprises face...
Despite the rapid growth of corporate volunteering in construction, there has been very little research in this area, particularly from a recipient’s perspective. To address this gap in knowledge, data were collected using surveys, reflective diaries, workbooks and a progress web, from 103 school pupils participating in one of the UK’s largest scho...
Interest in corporate social responsibility (CSR) is growing in response to societal and regulatory demands that construction businesses contribute positively to the environments and communities in which they build. While, CSR research in the construction and engineering industry is progressing there has been little research into whether and how fi...
Corporate volunteering is a growing global phenomenon. Despite the size and significance of the construction industry, there has been no research into corporate volunteering in this sector which presents special challenges around its highly transitionary, temporary, regulated and project-based culture. To address this gap in knowledge and to answer...
We employed a Glaserian grounded theory approach to explore the gap between behavioural safety and its unsatisfactory outcomes. Data were collected through ethnographic studies on the practice of managing heat stress on thirty-six construction sites in Hong Kong and Chonqing in mainland China. Two core concepts, institutions and institutional logic...
Project management literature has long argued that inter-organizational justice is a key driver of successful construction project delivery. It is argued that when people believe business transactions are fair, they are more likely to exhibit positive organizational citizenship behaviors such as working harmoniously, giving discretionary effort, re...
Industrialization of the construction process is increasing around the world due to its potential to improve safety, sustainability, effectiveness, productivity and efficiency. While there has been research into the impacts of various forms of industrialized construction on the construction sector, surprisingly there has been little research into t...
In the construction industry, the subject of corporate social responsibility (CSR) is becoming increasingly important as communities, employees and socially conscious clients expect firms to demonstrate they are good corporate citizens. However, while CSR research in construction has accelerated in recent years, it remains fragmented and unconceptu...
The global modern technology market in the construction industry is valued at billions of dollars and the approach to technology diffusion taken by vendors has a major impact on the success or failure of those technologies. While many previous studies have examined the adoption and the diffusion of information technologies, the technology diffusion...
Many Indigenous populations around the world face enormous challenges of relatively high unemployment, poor health and integrating into modern society. The Australian
government is seeking to address these problems through social procurement initiatives that encourage construction clients and firms to employ Indigenous businesses in their supply ch...
Safety and productivity are often perceived as competing demands in a construction project organisation and the strategies of achieving them as a dilemma for project decision-making. We explore the safety-productivity paradox through an institutional logics lens. Through an in-depth single case study of climatic heat stress management in a subcontr...
Many countries are facing a future of more regular extreme-weather-events (EWEs) and hospitals will play a critical role in managing the significant health impacts of such events. This study integrates organisational and infrastructure systems for the first time, to explore the barriers which exist, in making Australian hospitals more resilient to...
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– Increasing workforce casualisation, under representation of women and other minority groups, racial discrimination, corruption and poor safety are just some of the documented examples of intra-organisational injustice in the industry. Typically these issues are problematised separately using different theoretical frameworks, yet at the m...
Health facilities play a crucial role in maintaining healthcare services to the community during an extreme weather event. Health facilities managers operate within a wider network of organisations which include emergency services, health resource suppliers, local authorities, external health agencies and governmental organisations. Their response...
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– The purpose of this paper is to explore the extent to which hospital disaster planners and managers understand the role of built infrastructure in delivering effective healthcare services during extreme weather events (EWEs). There is substantial evidence to indicate that many hospitals are vulnerable to EWEs. This is alarming given commu...
The construction industry is the most male-dominated sector in Australia: in 2016 women
represent only 12% of the workforce, a decrease from 17% in 2006 (ABS 2016, ABS 2006).
Among professional and managerial roles, women represent 14% of staff (ABS 2012).
Men dominate senior ‘technical’, operational careers, while women congregate in junior,
suppo...
Hospitals play a critical role in helping communities respond effectively to extreme weather events (EWEs). Despite predictions of more EWEs, little is known about the process by which hospital infrastructure resilience to such events can be built. Using Gunderson and Holling’s Adaptive Cycle, a new theoretical perspective based on socio-ecological...
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– The purpose of this paper is to present a critical review of research in information and equipment technology adoption in the construction industry. The study also aims to formulate a conceptual framework of the different stages in the adoption process identify gaps in the existing literature and to provide a holistic picture of contempor...
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– The purpose of this paper is to explore the association between trust and productivity from a subcontractor perspective. More specifically it investigates: the perceived level of trust that currently exists between subcontractors and main contractors; the factors affecting trust at the project level; the relationship between trust and pro...
Recent developments in the field of social procurement mean that in the future, firms tendering for major construction and infrastructure projects will need to demonstrate that they are not just efficient in project delivery, but also contribute positively to the communities in which they build. The emerging social enterprise sector represents a po...
Extreme weather events (EWEs) represent an important opportunity for hospital facilities managers to learn lessons to improve future hospital resilience. However, little is known about the process by which this occurs and how effectively this happens. These questions are addressed by an exploration of how individual hospital stakeholders learn abou...
Social enterprises are profit-making businesses which trade for a social purpose. They bridge the gap between welfare and work, providing employment opportunities for disadvantaged groups often excluded from employment in the construction industry. Social enterprises are a fast-growing part of a larger third economic sector. However, compared to ot...
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– The purpose of this paper is to explore behavioural factors which are perceived to influence corrupt action in the Australian construction industry.
Design/methodology/approach
– The paper draw on Rabl and Kühlmann’s Model of a corrupt action and the results of face-to-face interviews with 23 people working in the Australian constructi...
Public-private partnerships (PPPs) are becoming increasingly popular around the world. While a large number of studies have explored the contractual mechanisms by which risks are distributed on such projects, none have explored the opportunistic behaviour which often drives the end result. This study uses tort law theory and organizational misbehav...
The construction industry remains the most male dominated sector in Australia. Several decades of formal gender equality initiatives by government and business have failed to bring about any meaningful change to the hierarchical and numerical representation of women in the sector. Drawing on new institutionalism, particularly the concepts of ‘robus...
There are numerous examples of unfair inter-organizational business practices in the construction industry. Conflict and confrontation, corruption, bid-shopping, insecurity of payment and supply chain exploitation are just some examples which have been documented over several decades in many countries. There have been numerous initiatives to make t...
Despite what many researchers, governments, and commentators say, there is a considerable amount of innovation that occurs in the construction industry. Negative opinions of construction innovation are often misinformed by data and methodologies designed to measure innovation in other sectors and by a misunderstanding of the realities of innovation...
The complexity of public private partnership (PPP) projects ensures that risks can arise and spread in unpredictable and sometimes catastrophic ways. Systems thinking is often proposed as a potential solution to this problem but has not been widely adopted in practice. To explore the reasons for this, interviews were conducted with sixteen senior c...
Well known neo-Schumpeterian models of innovation fail to represent how innovation happens in a creative, service-based industry such as construction. It is time to advocate a grassroots-oriented approach to innovation that better reflects the opportunistic, informal and spontaneous way in which innovation happens. In offering an alternative perspe...
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– The purpose of this paper is to continue the discussion about the actual and potential role of clients in driving more innovation in the construction sector through interviews with some of the Australian construction industry’s leading clients, contractors and consultants.
Design/methodology/approach
– This paper synthesises previously d...
Burnout has been identified as a serious problem for the Australian construction industry, having negative effects at both individual and the organizational levels. While there is accumulating research into the causes and consequences of burnout for professionals working in the construction industry, we have little understanding of construction stu...
Community-based protests against major construction and engineering projects are becoming increasingly common as concerns over issues such as corporate social accountability, climate change and corruption become more prominent in the public's mind. Public perceptions of risk associated with these projects can have a contagious effect, which mismana...
The construction industry remains the most male dominated sector in Australia. Despite three decades of formal gender equity initiatives by government and business, there is little understanding of why there has been little change to the hierarchical and numerical underrepresentation of women. Using a New Institutionalist perspective, more specific...
As the general public become more empowered, informed and educated about the impact of business activities on their lives, they are demanding more involvement in construction projects which they perceive to affect their interests. The process of community consultation is traditionally seen as the responsibility of urban planners but residual commun...
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– Surprisingly, given the prominence and front-line role of subcontractors in the construction industry, their perspective is almost completely absent from construction productivity literature. Existing research in this area presents a highly one-sided principal contractor perspective and there are very few insights into what subcontractors...
The construction innovation literature suggests that managers face a stark choice. They can innovate or perish in the face of growing global competition and an increasingly uncertain and dynamic world. Innovation is presented as a key area of reform needed to raise business performance, yet at the same time it is argued that Australia is falling be...
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– A predicted increase in climate change-related extreme weather events will present hospitals with new health-related and physical risks which were not originally anticipated in building and infrastructure designs. Markus et al. 's building systems model is used to analyse a range of adaptive strategies to cope with such events. The paper...
Subcontracting is a common aspect of all construction markets but is a particular feature of countries like the UK, Italy and Australia, where similar statutory, political and regulatory changes have reduced the number of vertically integrated firms and driven increased fragmentation and self-employment in the industry. While subcontracting has pro...
There have been many instances of unsuccessful public private partnership (PPP) projects. Traditional reductionist approaches to risk assessment appear inadequate to manage the complex and dynamic interdependencies which exist on such complex projects. Systems dynamics methods have been used extensively outside construction to assess risk in other...
Serendipity has played a large part in the lives of many successful innovators but has been neglected from traditional neo-classical theories and models of strategy and innovation. Yet as the business world becomes more complex, uncertain and interconnected, there is accumulating evidence that innovation will be just as likely to arise from unexpec...
Construction projects have a potentially large economic, social, ecological and cultural impact on the communities in which they take place. As these communities become increasingly empowered, educated, connected and organised, there is increasing evidence that they are able and willing to mobilise action when they become concerned about the impact...
Community consultation is traditionally the domain of urban and town planners. But it is often the case that residual community concerns linger into construction phases as the true impact of construction on the community becomes physically apparent. However, too often community concerns are ignored or badly managed, leading to damaging and often co...
Innovation, Strategy and Risk in Construction integrates insights from business and government leaders with contemporary research, to help built environment professionals turn serendipity to their own advantage by building greater innovative and adaptive capacity into their operations. Accessible and full of practical examples, the book argues that...
Globalization, uncertain domestic markets and increasing competition are encouraging construction firms to internationalize. Although expatriates are commonly used by many construction companies to establish and manage overseas operations, there has been little research into the challenges of managing these people. Through case studies of five Aust...
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... Project management research has recently shifted focus to the value that projects deliver to a broader range of stakeholders (Green and Sergeeva, 2019). This has occurred simultaneously with a change in construction project management to focus on how construction employment can be used to address the socioeconomic inequities facing marginalised groups and migrants in Australia and internationally (Loosemore et al., 2022;Troje, 2022). Known as social procurement, these nascent practices aim to create social value in the communities in which projects are built. ...
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... Safety training. The primary focus of training programs is to update safety information and skills of workforce [34]. Jafari, Gharari, Ghafari, Omidi, Kalantari and Asadolah-Fardi [35] stated that effective safety training can adjust unsafe behaviour of workers which ultimately improves the overall safety climate. ...
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... The traditional engineering-based hard systems view of projects (Blomquist et al. 2010, p. 6) regards these practices as a 'structured, mechanistic, top-down, system-model-based approach relying on systems design, tools, methods and procedures'. In this rational view, the iron triangle of cost, time, and quality is the most basic criterion by which project success is traditionally measured (Pollack et al. 2018), although this is evolving continuously to incorporate softer criteria such as social and environmental value (Loosemore et al. 2021). Blomquist et al. (2010) point out that besides this rational image of how projects are structured, managed, and judged as a success or not, other perspectives are emerging. ...
... Although engaging in religious practices and seeking help from religious leaders were uncovered in this review as coping practices of interest to young construction workers, very little research currently exists on this topic. We argue that this is rather counter-intuitive considering that young workers from the Global South constitute a key source of both skilled and unskilled labour for the construction industry worldwide and have been envisaged as a target workforce for increasing post-Covid economic recovery in the construction industry [71,72]. In the broader mental health literature, there is a clear indication that coping practices rooted in indigenous culture and religions of the Global South are gaining global approval [73]. ...
... Lastly, the uncontested notion of the successful and innovative Western "entrepreneur" may not necessarily apply to Indigenous contexts. Therefore, this concept must also be expanded to include different conceptions of 'success' (Loosemore & McCallum, 2021), as well as being inclusive of marginalized and disadvantaged entrepreneurs that survive on the fringe of dominant societies (Imas et al., 2012). For example, Indigenous entrepreneurs may hold an expanded understanding of 'firm success' that extends beyond profit maximization to consider (1) the creation of meaningful employment that aligns with culturally meaningful lifestyles, (2) promotion of self-determination that recognizes Indigenous rights and relationships to traditional territories, and (3) advancement of community wellness along multiple dimensions (e.g., education, health, housing, etc.) (R. Anderson et al., 2006;Hindle & Moroz, 2010;Tapsell & Woods, 2010). ...
... Social procurement is often used to create more inclusive supply chains by contracting local, small or minority-owned enterprises, and also aims to mitigate issues connected to social exclusion, such as unemployment, poor education, segregation, poor housing and homelessness. The target groups for social procurement policies are usually disadvantaged people such as immigrants, young people or people with disabilities [4][5][6][7][8]. Social procurement policies are thus a subset of wider social policies, which can be implemented to mitigate many different social issues. ...
... professional certification and accreditations (Walker et al., 2017;Abuzeinab et al., 2018;Mahamadu et al., 2019); Trust, commitment performance as compared to the competitors (Shokri-Ghasabeh and Chileshe, 2016;Sepasgozar et al., 2021); Performance, satisfaction the uniqueness of the product and services being offered by the sub-contractor (Matthews et al., 2017;Perrenoud et al., 2017); and Innovation, commitment support the sub-contractor provides to the main contractor (Liu et al., 2017;Mahamid, 2017) Organizational culture, contracts, purchasing strategies Source: Developed by authors CI 6. Discussion: antecedents shaping collaboration and controlling risk transfer Achieving seamless collaboration between the project partners is the main goal of organisation's project governance model to attain successful project delivery (ul Musawir et al., 2020). Project governance is defined as the framework within which all the decisions regarding the responsibilities and accountabilities regarding the interactions between the project participants are laid (PMBOKV R Guide, 2017). ...
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