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Empirical Approach to Understand the Knowledge Management Process
No full textKnowledge Management (KM) is a process that focuses on knowledge-related activities to facilitate knowledge creation, capture, transformation and use, with the ultimate aim of leveraging organisations' intellectual capital to achieve organisational objectives. The KM process receives input from its context (e.g. internal business environment), and produces output (i.e. knowledge). It is argued that the validity of such knowledge should be justified by business performance. The study, this paper reports on, provides enhanced team climate. Despite the existing literature within the context of construction highlighting the importance of such factors, empirical studies addressing their impacts on firm-level innovation diffusion and business performance are sparse. To overcome this deficiency, a conceptual model was developed to be used for empirical investigation. This paper details the theoretical development of such a model and outlines a research method and plan of future research activities.Griffith Sciences, Griffith School of EngineeringFull Tex
A Research Framework for Investigating Public Private Partnerships (PPP) in Hong Kong
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PPP is a general term covering all contracted relationships between the public and private sectors to produce a public asset or to deliver a public service. Its major advantage lies in utilising resources from the private sector to alleviate some of the financial burdens of the government.\ud
The Asian financial turmoil in the late 1990s has imposed enormous pressure on the budget of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Government. With a continuous outcry for better public services due to the rapid development of Hong Kong, alternative financing models need to be sought to ensure sustainability. Hong Kong has the advantage of being the international gateway to Mainland China, and with this benefit has attracted overseas enterprises to base their offices in Hong Kong for the Asian market. Obviously the private sector has much to contribute.\ud
The HKSAR Government has realised the benefits of using PPP in Hong Kong as well as the success achieved overseas. But a more thorough research is needed to develop the most suitable practice of PPP in terms of project nature, project complexity, project type and project scale under which PPP is most appropriate for Hong Kong.\ud
This paper provides an initial report of a research project being funded by the Research Grants Council (RGC) of the HKSAR. The project aims to evaluate the benefits and risks of PPP adopted in Australia and the United Kingdom, and from these previous experiences to develop a best practice framework for implementing PPP in Hong Kong. It firstly reports on the status of PPP development trend and the hands-on experiences which have been drawn in these countries. Qualitative and quantitative research methods applied in conducting the research are discussed. The likely impacts of the study are highlighted. It is believed that the construction industry and the government would benefit a lot as a result of this study, and further procurement and project financing options would be opened up for delivering better future public service
Long term Indonesian construction industry’s aggregate productivity simulation considering overall business environment
No full textCompetitiveness of Indonesian Construction Industry is in question. It is necessary to address the problem soonest so that persistence situation can be improved. To find the solution for this problem this research therefore conducted. The research are conducted in two steps, the purpose of the first step is to determine the problem of the Indonesian construction industry, second step is to built a soft system dynamics model through a soft system modelling and structural equation modelling. Data were collected from various sources such as World Bank Institute, Freedom House, International Corruption Watch, UNDP, Indonesian Statistics Office and Bank Indonesia. Primary data was collected from Indonesian Construction Industry Players. This study indicates that: higher educated human resources in construction industry are not effectively support the productivity of the industry; construction industry players tend to consider short term benefit than long term sustainability and growth; strategic planning time horizon consideration contribute significantly in long term productivity. It is suggested that to improve productivity of Indonesian construction industry several step should be taken: marketing orientation should be changed toward more sophisticated project, institution for collaboration in construction industry should be initiated and high governance should be established and maintaine
Lesson learned corrective action in internal factors of construction company in Indonesia
No full textIn improving Indonesia construction companies’ ability to compete, anticipative steps by determining various improvements and corrections in construction companies are needed to increase the company’s quality performance. Several factors that influence and determine the success of a construction company can be grouped into internal factors, external factors, and market forces. Internal factors in a company are important factors and have the effect of approximately 42% towards the company’s success. Management, equipment, human resources, corporate culture and finance dominate the internal factors’ influence towards the success of a construction company. The research objective discussed in this paper is to identify the causes of internal factor problems in construction companies and their corrective action recommendations. Corrective actions are needed to fix the problems and it depends upon the cause and the effect of the problems in construction companies. The methods used are literature studies and survey to identify the problems including their effects and causes, also their corrective actions. Analyses used in this research are Statistical Analysis, Monte Carlo simulation and Delphi Method. The results show that the corrective actions towards the problems in internal factors which are mostly corrective action during construction process and lesson-learned corrective action (preventive action)
Post-COVID-19 BIM adoption, Challenges and Perspectives among AEC firms in Africa: Case of Morocco
No full textThe COVID-19 pandemic emphasized the remote potential of Building Information Modeling (BIM) to enable Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) operators to sustain work under the resulting challenging circumstances. Some studies pointed out the post-COVID-19 context of BIM use in several regions, but none in Africa. Therefore, based on a mixed-method design, this study aims to fill this research gap and provides a reference for BIMrelated parameters in Africa including BIM adoption, challenges and perspectives by considering Morocco as a case study. This study disclosed that the COVID-19 occurrence fastened BIM adoption among Moroccan AEC operators by 19% and urged governmental initiatives toward BIM adoption regulation but confirmed that these are still insufficient compared to the significant identified BIM challenges. This paper confirmed that personal and government-related challenges are the most critical BIM challenges in Africa and highlighted that BIM faces 2 more considerable challenges in Morocco caused by a considerable loophole in local regulation. In this vein, the paper provides remedy actions to lessen the impacts of identified challenges and smoothen BIM adoption. © 2023 by CITC-13
Green buildings : a framework for social sustainability
No full textDespite the ongoing debate surrounding climate change, sustainability is increasingly a key consideration for building owners and tenants with the ‘triple bottom line’ as desired outcomes. The triangulated social, economic and environmental goals of sustainability are now the mantra of many businesses. While much has been written of the benefits of green buildings to its occupants, comparatively fewer studies have been devoted to investigating the perceived drawbacks and measures to improve the social sustainability factor, i.e., user satisfaction. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to consider the impacts of green buildings on its occupants by drawing together past empirical findings and summarizing the results. In addition, the paper will also present a case study of the Institute of Sustainable Development and Architecture, which is Australia’s first 6-green star, rated educational building. Through these methods, the paper will identify gaps between green building performance and user satisfaction. Thereafter, it will introduce a social sustainability framework that seeks to improve the social performance of green buildings. The 6-P model is a holistic framework targeting the following factors that can influence user satisfaction of green buildings. These factors are: public perception, price, policies, psychological, physical and personal
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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