Abstract
Sustainable construction requires effective innovation in construction projects. Innovations involved multiple professionals and participants, inter-organization collaborative among stakeholders is considered as a feature and basic demand for innovation management. Exploring complicated interaction relations of stakeholders in inter-organization collaborative innovation, which is an important guarantee to realize innovation in sustainable construction. The network was viewed as a complex system that can replace stable organizational structure and procedures. It is necessary to shed light on the internal mechanism of innovation from the network perspective to promote the performance of innovation. This article investigates the project network of an industrial construction project in China by adopting the social network method and in-depth quantitative data analysis. Based on the network data and qualitative interview, the structure of the project network in the process of innovation for sustainable construction is analyzed, the key actor in the innovation management is revealed, and the influence factors of the inter-organization collaborative is pointed out. Research results will help promote the inter-organization collaborative innovation and improve the efficiency of sustainable construction.
Highlights
The rapid development of industrialization and urbanization provides a huge development space for the construction industry of China
The continuous development of the construction industry has significantly promoted the economic growth and social development of the nation. It brings some negative impacts, such as debt dispute caused by default of project payment, safety accidents caused by poor project quality, the waste of funds and resources caused by repeated demolition and construction, the excessive consumption of energy and eco-environmental problems such as noise, solid waste and water pollution caused by low level of management and technology
The network method can be used to clarify the interactions among organizations, which play an important role in the collaborative innovation for sustainable construction
Summary
The continuous development of the construction industry has significantly promoted the economic growth and social development of the nation. It brings some negative impacts, such as debt dispute caused by default of project payment, safety accidents caused by poor project quality, the waste of funds and resources caused by repeated demolition and construction, the excessive consumption of energy and eco-environmental problems such as noise, solid waste and water pollution caused by low level of management and technology. The concept of sustainable construction derives from sustainability science which aims to create a green environment that is conducive to human survival and development, throughout striving to maximize the effective use of nonrenewable resources, reducing the emission of pollutants and relieving impact on human health. Sustainable construction uses sustainability ideas to guide the construction and operation activities in the whole life cycle of a construction project
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