Pub Date : 2023-01-23DOI: 10.1080/01446193.2023.2167219
Nyakundi M. Michieka, Noha H. A. Razek, Richard Gearhart
Abstract The U.S. construction industry has been known to employ workers without a college education and provide adequate compensation make ends meet. Today, job quality in the industry has deteriorated to a level where wages are too low, causing workers to rely on U.S. safety net programs. This may be exacerbated by oil price changes, especially in regions where the oil industry is a significant driver of the economy. In this paper, we investigate the effects of oil price dynamics on real wages in the construction industry. A non-linear ARDL and TAR model are used for the empirical exercise which focusses on six top oil producing counties in the U.S. Long-run findings indicate that a 10% increase in oil price increases construction wages by 1.4, 1.2 and 9.3% in Kern, Weld and McKenzie Counties, respectively. Short run estimates indicate that a positive shock to oil prices increases wages in McKenzie County, North Dakota. Results from the TAR model show that the impact of an expansionary monetary policy to increase investment – and accordingly, increase wages – is diluted when oil prices are below the low oil price threshold.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-16DOI: 10.1080/01446193.2023.2165695
Lynn Vosman, T. Coenen, L. Volker, K. Visscher
Abstract Current societal challenges demand enduring engagement and the implementation of innovations. Unfortunately, the project-based nature of the construction industry fails to offer suitable conditions for innovation and change in terms of building long-term relationships and aligning incentives beyond the project scope. In this paper, we explore the potential of an innovation ecosystem perspective to reach sector-wide goals related to societal challenges in the infrastructure sector. Accordingly, five Dutch infrastructure cases were studied in terms of four characteristics: (1) actor heterogeneity; (2) strategic alignment of actors; (3) alignment with respect to a value proposition; and (4) governance structure. We found that the innovation ecosystem perspective has the potential to contribute to innovation in the sector, especially when specific innovations or knowledge building are pursued. In particular, the long-term perspective to collaboration in relation to addressing societal challenges and the shift to more relational ways of governance were found promising avenues for incorporation in the industry. The innovation ecosystem perspective in infrastructure, however, also poses substantial organizational, cultural, and processual challenges, such as adopting novel practices with respect to collaboration and establishing continuing informal relationships beyond the public procurement context.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-11DOI: 10.1080/01446193.2022.2164598
Islam H. El-adaway, G. Ali, Radwa Eissa, Mohamad Abdul Nabi, Muaz O. Ahmed, Tamima S. Elbashbishy, Ramy Khalef
Abstract Celebrating Construction Management and Economics's (CME) 40th anniversary, the goal of this paper is to investigate the knowledge structure and evolution of research trends in CME since its inception. The associated objectives include: (1) analyzing CME’s scholarly characteristics; (2) studying CME’s publication output over time; (3) examining interconnectivities between CME’s research trends; and (4) exploring the potential citation impact of recently published CME’s papers. In doing so, this paper implemented a multistep methodology that consists of descriptive assessment, social network analysis (SNA), and predictive machine learning (ML). Results of descriptive assessment showed that CME has witnessed over the years a noticeable growth in the number of publications, citation trends, and collaborative research as depicted increased co-authorship, and that highest percentage of publications were related to “Strategy, Decision Making, Risk, and Finance”, “Project planning and Design” and “Contemporary Issues”. Output of SNA highlights that research areas with the highest interconnectivity included “Strategy, Decision Making, Risk and Finance” and “Project Planning and Design”, and “Labor and Personnel Issues”. Furthermore, predictive ML revealed that CME papers have a high probability of becoming high impact publications. In addition to that, the predictive ML results re-emphasized the outcomes of the performed descriptive assessment by reflecting the importance of “Contemporary Issues”, “Organizational Issues”, “Strategy, Decision Making, Risk, and Finance”, and “Labor and Personnel Issues” as emerging research topics with increased potential impact in the future. Ultimately, this paper benefits all CME stakeholders by quantitatively studying current research patterns, their interconnectivities, and future potential.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-05DOI: 10.1080/01446193.2023.2164934
K. Nielsen, Marianne Törner, A. Pousette, Martin Grill
Abstract Denmark and Sweden are societally and regulatory similar countries with large differences in occupational injury rates. Denmark has consistently had twice the rate of reported injuries compared to Sweden and a 45% higher rate of fatal injuries in the construction industry. The current study aims to further investigate the perceived underlying factors responsible for the difference in injury rate between Denmark and Sweden by examining the possible impact on safety climate and safety behaviour of cooperation, perceived organizational support, organizational citizenship behaviour (OCB), planning, safety motivation, and long-term orientation. The paper is based on a questionnaire study completed by 346 construction workers from 48 Swedish construction sites and 465 construction workers from 37 Danish construction sites. The results show that all six predictors were positively related with safety climate and/or safety behaviour in both countries. However, the level of the predictors was generally higher in Sweden, and there was a stronger positive relationship with the outcomes in Sweden than Denmark. Specifically, the valuation of cooperation and OCB, planning and long-term orientation were more dominant in Sweden. These differences illuminate some of the possible factors underlying the difference in injury rate between the Danish and Swedish construction industry.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/01446193.2022.2162096
S. J. Uddin, A. Albert, Mahzabin Tamanna, Abdullah Alsharef
Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has been the largest global crisis in recent decades. Apart from the countless deaths and health emergencies, the pandemic has disrupted several industries—including construction. For example, a significant number of construction projects have been interrupted, delayed, and even abandoned. In such emergencies, information gathering and dissemination are vital for effective crisis management. The role of social media platforms such as YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter, as information sources, in these contexts has received much attention. The purpose of this investigation was to evaluate if YouTube can serve as a useful source of information for the construction industry in emergency situations—such as during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. The assessment was undertaken by distilling the coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic as it relates to the construction industry from the content shared via YouTube by leveraging Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic modelling. The investigation also compared the timeline with which relevant content was shared via YouTube and peer-reviewed research articles to make relative assessments. The findings suggest that YouTube offered significant and relevant coverage across six topics that include health and safety challenges, ongoing construction operation updates, workforce-related challenges, industry operations-related guidelines and advocacy, and others. Moreover, compared to the coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic in the research literature, YouTube offered more comprehensive and timely coverage of the pandemic as it relates to the construction industry. Accordingly, industry stakeholders may leverage YouTube as a valuable and largely untapped resource to aid in combating similar emergency situations.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-19DOI: 10.1080/01446193.2022.2156570
Yousong Wang, Yao Yao, Yangbing Zhang, Boya Su, Tongyuan Wu
Abstract Industrial agglomeration (IA), a common industrial phenomenon, has been verified to have a significant impact on total factor productivity (TFP) in many industries. However, the impact of IA on TFP is seldom investigated in the construction industry, despite the existence of the industrial agglomeration phenomenon in the construction industry. As such, this study aims to probe into the impact of IA on TFP in the construction industry, so as to provide new insights into the industry development and improvement of TFP in the construction industry. Based on the competing results of the agglomeration effect and congestion effect caused by IA, this study proposed three hypotheses on the impact mechanism of IA on TFP in the construction industry. Then, the non-linear regression model and linear regression model were developed to test the hypotheses based on the provincial panel data from 2002 to 2017 in China. The empirical results reveal that IA has a positive linear impact on TFP in the construction industry, and the impact of IA on TFP in the Chinese construction industry during the observed period is in the embryonic stage. Besides, both the firm scale and economic development level have positive impacts on TFP, whereas the specialization structure has a negative impact. Hence, the government can encourage industrial agglomeration in the construction industry to enhance TFP, in order to leverage the knowledge spillovers, labor pool, and other benefits from IA.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-15DOI: 10.1080/01446193.2022.2156569
T. Puolitaival, K. Kähkönen, L. Kestle
Abstract Responsibilities in construction management can be looked at from many perspectives: individually and organizationally, within the organization and outside the organization. They spread from the daily tasks of a site manager to contractual responsibilities of a whole organization forming a wide and complex topic. The aim of this research was to enhance the understanding of construction management responsibilities by looking at how job advertisements frame the responsibilities of construction management professionals. A documentary research approach with genre and content analyses was used to analyze a selection of job advertisements from large main contractors in the UK and the USA qualitatively. The genre analysis revealed that job advertisements present the construction management responsibilities through a breakdown of three levels: the role name, the overview of the work functions and the description of the responsibilities. The qualitative content analysis resulted in a redeveloped definition of construction management and typology of responsibilities. Recommendations are given for job advertisement writers to ensure that the role name, overview of the work functions and description of the responsibilities all align and contain an appropriate amount of accurate information to attract suitable candidates to apply.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-02DOI: 10.1080/01446193.2022.2154040
Paul W. Chan
When I took on the role of Editor-in-Chief for Construction Management and Economics in January 2020, I argued in the opening editorial that there is room for the journal to feature studies that tackle important and interesting questions surrounding the grand societal challenges of our time (Chan 2020). Thus, it gives me great pleasure to share my final editorial reflections at the back of the special issue of “Transforming Construction”, one of several special issues commissioned during my tenure as Editor-in-Chief that focus on some of the key ongoing challenges confronting researchers and practitioners in construction management and economics. The other issues included “Construction Defects, Danger, Disruption and Disputes” (Volume 39, Issue 12, 2021); “Sustainable Building Renovation” (Volume 40, Issue 3, 2022), and the Festschrift issue in honour of Dr. Glenn Ballard and his contribution to the field of lean construction (Volume 40, Issues 7–8, 2022). Still in the pipeline is the special issue on grand challenges facing our cities, as well as one based on the lessons learnt from the Covid-19 global pandemic. When thinking about grand societal challenges at the time of writing the opening editorial, I could not have imagined the onset of the Covid-19 global pandemic and its impacts on academic life. While analyses of the impacts of the global pandemic are still ongoing and will likely continue for some time, the Editorial Team has nevertheless experienced impacts of delays to the editorial process. Our average turnaround time for making editorial decisions over the past three years has crept up slightly to just over 33 days, indicating perhaps the challenges arising from increased workload and time pressures in academic life. At the same time, the Editorial Team also made decisions on 1,760 manuscripts over the same period with an acceptance rate of 13.3%, representing an increase in submissions to the journal and a slightly lower acceptance rate than the previous three years. In any case, there is a silver lining in the horizon where the turnaround time for an editorial decision is concerned; this appears to have reduced to just under 27 days on average over the past 11 months in 2022, which is in line with pre-pandemic levels. The Editorial Team is therefore grateful for the support given by the peerreviewers, a list of which is appended at the end of this issue. Forty years of Construction Management and Economics: a moment to celebrate, commemorate and reflect for the continuity of the journal
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Pub Date : 2022-11-29DOI: 10.1080/01446193.2022.2151025
Natalie R Galea, Abigail Powell, Fanny Salignac
Abstract Over the last few decades, research has largely focused on the processes and practices that act against women in male-dominated industries and the effect this has on their career progression. However, men’s careers are under analysed. This paper flips the gaze, applying a feminist institutionalist lens to examine the practices and rules that shape and enable men’s career progression. This is critical if we are to understand how men’s power in organizations is maintained and perpetuated, arguably at the expense of women’s careers. It draws on data from a rapid ethnographic study of the Australian construction industry, specifically of construction professionals working in two multinational Australian construction companies. The paper finds that men’s career progression routinely operates through homosociality, instrumentally and expressively, via a “sponsor-mobility” principle whereby selected individuals receive higher levels of guidance, access to opportunities and advocacy from their managers.
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