Editorial: Informality and emergence in construction

Construction Management and Economics

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 907-912

  Chan, Paul W ^a   Räisänen, Christine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 77449151521     PISSN: 01446193     EISSN: 1466433X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01446190903361912     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Alvesson, M. (2002) Postmodernism and Social Research, Open University Press, Buckingham.
2. Alvesson, M. and Deetz, S. (2000) Doing Critical Management Research, Sage, London.
3. Alvesson, M. and Skoldberg, K. (2000) Reflexive Methodology, Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA.
4. Alvesson, M. and Willmott, H. (1996) Making Sense of Management: A Critical Introduction, Sage, London.
5. Baiden, B.K., Price, A.D.F. and Dainty, A.R.J. (2006) The extent of team integration within construction projects. International Journal of Project Management, 24, 13-23.
6. Bowker, G. and Star, S.L. (2000) Sorting Things Out, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
7. Briscoe, G. (2006) How useful and reliable are construction statistics? Building Research & Information, 34(3), 220-9.
8. Burawoy, M. (1998) The extended case method. Sociological Theory, 16(1), 4-33.
9. Chan, P. and Kaka, A. (2007) The impacts of workforce integration on productivity, in Dainty, A.R.J., Green, S. and Bagilhole, B. (eds) People and Culture in Construction: A Reader, Taylor & Francis, London, pp. 240-57.
10. Cremers, J. and Janssen, J. (2006) Shifting Employment: Undeclared Labour in Construction, Antenna, Rotterdam.
11. Dainty, A.R.J. (2008) Methodological pluralism in construction management research, in Knight, A. and Ruddock, L. (eds) Advanced Research Methods for the Built Environment, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 1-12.
12. Dainty, A.R.J., Green, S.D. and Bagilhole, B.M. (eds) (2007) People and Culture in Construction: A Reader, Taylor & Francis, London.
13. Dey, P.K., Ho, W., Charoeningam, C. and Deewong, W. (2008) Relationship characteristics within the supply chain of small and medium-sized construction enterprises in Thailand. Journal of Manufacturing Technology and Management, 15(1), 102-18.
14. Fellini, I., Ferro, A. and Fullin, G. (2007) Recruitment processes and labour mobility: the construction industry in Europe. Work, Employment and Society, 21(2), 277-98.
15. Geertz, C. (1977) The Interpretation of Cultures, Basic Books, New York.
16. Haas, C.T., Rodriguez, A.M., Glover, R. and Goodrum, P.M. (2001) Implementing a multiskilled workforce. Construction Management and Economics, 19, 633-41.
17. Husserl, E. (1970) The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology, Northwestern University Press, Evanston, Illinois.
18. Kheni, N.A., Dainty, A.R.J. and Gibb, A. (2008) Health and safety management in developing countries: a study of construction SMEs. Construction Management and Economics, 26(11), 1159-69.
19. LeMasters, E.E. (1975) Blue-collar Aristocrats: Life-Styles at a Working-Class Tavern, University of Wisconsin Press, Madison.
20. Lingard, H. and Francis, V. (2008) An exploration of the adaptive strategies of working families in the Australian construction industry. Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, 15(6), 562-79.
21. Lizarralde, G. and Root, D. (2008) The informal construction sector and the inefficiency of low cost housing markets. Construction Management and Economics, 26(2), 103-13.
22. Lockyer, C. and Scholarios, D. (2007) The 'rain dance' of selection in construction: rationality as ritual and the logic of informality. Personnel Review, 36(4), 528-48.
23. Räisänen, C. and Gunnarson, S. (2007) Learning to know and knowing to learn: discursive practice as knowledge enabler, in Hughes, W. (ed.) Proceedings of the CME25: Construction Management and Economics: Past, Present and Future, University of Reading, UK, 16-18 July.
24. Rooke, J.A. and Kagioglou, M. (2007) Criteria for evaluating research: the unique adequacy requirement of methods. Construction Management and Economics, 25(9), 979-87.
25. Schatzki, T., Knorr-Cetina, K. and von Savigny, E. (2001) The Practice Turn in Contemporary Theory, Routledge, London.
26. Senaratne, S. and Sexton, M. (2008) Managing construction project change: a knowledge management perspective. Construction Management and Economics, 26(12), 1303-11.
27. Seymour, D. and Rooke, J. (1995) The culture of the industry and the culture of research. Construction Management and Economics, 13, 511-23.
28. Seymour, D., Crook, D. and Rooke, J. (1998) The role of theory in construction management: reply to Runeson. Construction Management and Economics, 16, 109-12.
29. Van de Ven, A. (2007) Engaged Scholarship: A Guide for Organizational and Social Research, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
30. Wells, J. (2007) Informality in the construction sector in developing countries. Construction Management and Economics, 25(1), 87-93.