Management practices in project-based design: Links with the USA

Saturday 30 October 2010

Links with the USA

Travelling straight from the BISRIA event on Building Information Modelling on 2nd November, I will be attending the Engineering Project Organization Conference next week. This conference, co-organized by Profs Paul Chinowsky and Ray Levitt, brings together researchers interested in a range of management, leadership and organizational issues relating to engineering projects. It also provides an opportunity to catch up with members of the international advisory board for the Design Innovation Research Centre and to visit the R&D laboratories of one of our collaborators, Bentley Systems. I will be visiting both the Collaboratory for Research on Global Projects and the Center for Integrated Facilities Management at Stanford as part of the visit, and Prof Martin Fischer will be speaking at the event on Engineering Management in the Digital Economy at the Institution of Civil Engineers and visiting the Centre in Reading in December.

Selected Publications

Whyte, J. (2011) Managing digital coordination of design: emerging hybrid practices in an institutionalized project setting, Engineering Project Organization Journal, Vol. 1, Issue 3, pp. 159-211

Whyte, J. and Sexton, M. (2011) Motivations for innovation in the built environment: new directions for research, Building Research and Information, Vol. 39, Issue 5, pp. 473-482.

Whyte, J. and Lobo, S. (2010) Coordination and control in project-based work: digital objects and infrastructures for delivery, Construction Management and Economics, Vol. 28, Issue 6, 557-567.

Whyte, J. (2010) Taking time to understand: articulating relationships between technologies and organizations, Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Vol. 29, pp. 217-236.

Harty, C. and Whyte, J. (2010) Emerging hybrid practices in construction design work: the role of mixed media, ASCE Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, Vol. 136, No. 4, pp. 468-476.

Ewenstein, B. and Whyte, J. (2009) Knowledge practices in design: The role of visual representations as 'epistemic objects, Organization Studies, Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 7-30.

Whyte, J., Ewenstein, B. Hales, M. and Tidd, J. (2008) Visualizing knowledge in project-based work, Long Range Planning, Vol. 41, No. 1, pp.74-92.

Ewenstein, B. and Whyte, J. (2007) Beyond words: aesthetic knowledge and knowing in design, Organization Studies, Vol. 28, No. 5, pp. 689-708.