• Login
    View Item 
    •   Home
    • BMRI Business and Management Research Institute - to April 2016
    • Centre for Leadership Innovation (CLI)
    • View Item
    •   Home
    • BMRI Business and Management Research Institute - to April 2016
    • Centre for Leadership Innovation (CLI)
    • View Item
    JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

    Browse

    All of UOBREPCommunitiesTitleAuthorsIssue DateSubmit DateSubjectsPublisherJournalDepartmentThis CollectionTitleAuthorsIssue DateSubmit DateSubjectsPublisherJournalDepartment

    My Account

    LoginRegister

    About

    AboutLearning ResourcesResearch Graduate SchoolResearch InstitutesUniversity Website

    Statistics

    Display statistics

    Constructing learning: adversarial and collaborative working in the British construction industry

    • CSV
    • RefMan
    • EndNote
    • BibTex
    • RefWorks
    Authors
    Bishop, Dan
    Felstead, Alan
    Fuller, Alison
    Jewson, Nick
    Unwin, Lorna
    Kakavelakis, Konstantinos
    Issue Date
    2009
    
    Metadata
    Show full item record
    Abstract
    This paper examines two competing systems of organising the construction process and their consequences for learning. Under the adversarial system, contractors compete solely on price, risks are shifted onto those next in line and disputes are institutionalised through complicated, but inevitably incomplete, contracts. However, under collaborative working the costs and risks of the project are shared and the parties involved communicate openly and freely, often in the absence of tightly specified contracts. The move from the former to the latter represents a shift towards a climate in which problems are shared and solved regardless of where they occur in the productive system (a process conceptualised as ‘knotworking’ in the literature). The paper argues that such learning theories and policy pressures from above fail to take adequately into account the heavy hand of history and the importance of understanding the nature of the productive systems in which ‘knotworking’ is expected to occur. Both are important in understanding the fragility of collaborative working across the stages and structures of the construction production process which place limits on making ‘knotworking’ an habitual and commonplace activity.
    Citation
    Constructing learning: adversarial and collaborative working in the British construction industry 2009, 22 (4):243-260 Journal of Education and Work
    Publisher
    Taylor and Francis
    Journal
    Journal of Education and Work
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10547/250963
    DOI
    10.1080/13639080903290355
    Additional Links
    http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13639080903290355
    Type
    Article
    Language
    en
    ISSN
    1363-9080
    1469-9435
    ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
    10.1080/13639080903290355
    Scopus Count
    Collections
    Centre for Leadership Innovation (CLI)

    entitlement

     
    DSpace software (copyright © 2002 - 2021)  DuraSpace
    Quick Guide | Contact Us
    Open Repository is a service operated by 
    Atmire NV
     

    Export search results

    The export option will allow you to export the current search results of the entered query to a file. Different formats are available for download. To export the items, click on the button corresponding with the preferred download format.

    By default, clicking on the export buttons will result in a download of the allowed maximum amount of items.

    To select a subset of the search results, click "Selective Export" button and make a selection of the items you want to export. The amount of items that can be exported at once is similarly restricted as the full export.

    After making a selection, click one of the export format buttons. The amount of items that will be exported is indicated in the bubble next to export format.