کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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275785 | 1429676 | 2014 | 13 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
• We explore practice and distributed knowledge through interaction.
• We analyze construction design practices in six cases.
• We visualize the actual interaction distribution during design meetings.
• Use of various means of interaction enhances sharing and generating knowledge.
• Project manager is found to be a boundary spanner in five areas.
In project-based industries studies show difficulties in extracting, distributing and applying embedded and practice knowledge across structural and organisational boundaries. We focus on interorganisational projects consisting of distributed and embedded knowledge. Interaction becomes important in order to cooperate and share interorganisational and distributed knowledge. The aim of the research is to explore how sharing and generating practice based and distributed knowledge occurs through interaction in interorganisational projects and how this is managed. The study focuses on the design phase and relates traditional design practices to concurrent design practices. In the study we observed six cases of design meetings in the construction and oil and gas industry and performed 31 interviews. The paper contributes with the following: (1) understanding and visualisation of interaction patterns, (2) insight in use of various forms of interaction, and (3) ways of managing distributed and embedded knowledge through interaction.
Journal: International Journal of Project Management - Volume 32, Issue 8, November 2014, Pages 1432–1444