A Research Agenda for Construction Management

Edited by Roine Leiringer, Associate Professor, Department of Real Estate and Construction, The University of Hong Kong and Andy Dainty, Pro-Vice Chancellor for Education, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

Contents:

1 Construction management research: a community
at a crossroads? 1
Roine Leiringer and Andrew Dainty
2 Construction economics – it ain’t what it used to be 21
Stephen Gruneberg
3 What are we trying to achieve? Rigour, relevance
and modes of knowledge production in
construction management research 45
Mike Bresnen
4 Theory and the contribution of qualitative
research to construction management research 67
Libby Schweber and Vivien Chow
5 Understanding construction sector policy through
narrative analysis: a critical perspective 93
Stuart D. Green and Dilek Ulutas Duman
6 Beyond the boundary and scale of the
construction project 117
Paul W. Chan
7 Cognition and action in construction project organising 141
Eunice Maytorena-Sanchez, Natalya Sergeeva
and Graham M. Winch
8 Construction safety management: the case for
a new approach to research-informed change 171
Steve Rowlinson
9 A research agenda for construction management
in the 4.0 era 193
Evangelos Pantazis, Eyüphan Koç and Lucio Soibelman
10 Fast and frugal research: the pervasive use of
questionnaires in construction management research 221
Dominic D. Ahiaga-Dagbui and Igor Martek
11 Making sense of ‘new age data sets’: researching
from afar 243
Johan Ninan, Mathangi Krishnamurthy and
Ashwin Mahalingam
12 Does construction need management? The case
for alternative construction organization 265
Dan Sage

Index