...Nipuni Sumanarathna; Bismark Duodu; Shoeb Ahmed Memon; Steve Rowlinson Purpose This study aims to explore the innovation deployment of construction contracting firms through exploratory–exploitative learning and organisational ambidexterity. Design/methodology/approach Firstly, a literature...

... and safety performance within projects is to improve, then construction organisations and their management need to openly acknowledge their presence so that “learning from errors” can form an integral part of an organisation’s fabric. This will require the institutionalisation of error reporting...

..., precisely because of (and about) the innovation – remembering that in building handling information is not generally regarded as a productive activity (Bardin et al., 1993). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Performance Construction Change Innovation Learning Groák...

... and share the capacity to create and use knowledge. It is the collective learning that takes place within the social systems, i.e. communities of practice (CoP) that are of particular significance to an organisation from a KM perspective. This paper aims to review, critique, and raise some pertinent...

... in the construction industry. The “champions of practice” is independent from the project team and comprised of individuals from a learning alliances that have been established. The “champions of practice” is developed as an active know‐how platform to provide advice pertaining to issues of “best practice” that have...

...Eddie W.L. Cheng; Heng Li; Peter Love; Zahir Irani This paper highlights the importance of creating a learning culture for strategic partnering in construction. Theories of organizational learning and strategic partnering are interpolated to identify the related attributes that help to relate...