Management practices in project-based design: Constructions Matter

Saturday, 8 May 2010

Constructions Matter

I'm in Copenhagen, having just attended the 'Constructions Matter' conference at the Copenhagen Business School (http://www.clibyg.org/conference2010/). There were, as usual, a great set of people, papers and conversations. The conference raised questions about how people engage with digital technologies, and the consequences of this for the built environment. There are some interesting connections between the set of papers in the session on 'Management Practices and Digital Designs,' and some early ideas about taking these conversations forward....

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.