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Trialling a new approach to interdisciplinary collaboration in UK construction: A projects-as-practice analysis

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  • John N. Connaughton
  • William H. Collinge

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This paper investigates the emergence of collaboration on a UK construction project pioneering a novel form of project procurement (Integrated Project Insurance: IPI). Using a projects-as-practice lens and an action research approach, examination of linked episodes of project activity chart the unfolding of collaboration praxis in an IPI context through the frequent interplays of praxis (situated doings), practice (rules, values, policies) and practitioners working together. The analysis focuses on important requirements in IPI: that project practitioners, supported by a facilitator, collaborate to develop joint solutions to project requirements and share responsibility for them. Findings show how practitioners understood how to collaborate through the progressive enactment of working together rather than by developing a prior agreement about what collaboration would involve. Thus, the doing of collaboration mattered more than sayings about it in how practitioners created meaning in developing new collaboration praxis. Through this enactment the facilitator role is understood more as a practitioner in the development of collaboration praxis than solely as a convenor of collaboration. Findings also show how the micro-activities of practitioners may be illuminated using a projects-as-practice lens combined with a focus on interconnected episodes of project life to understand the emergence of praxis on construction projects.

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  • John N. Connaughton & William H. Collinge, 2021. "Trialling a new approach to interdisciplinary collaboration in UK construction: A projects-as-practice analysis," Construction Management and Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 39(7), pages 595-616, July.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:conmgt:v:39:y:2021:i:7:p:595-616
    DOI: 10.1080/01446193.2021.1933558
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