Table 1.

Social, political, technical and economic barriers and enablers for implementing systemic innovations

CategoryBarriersEnablers
Social
  • A risk-averse culture (Pan et al., 2008)

  • The lack of multi-skilled labour (Goodier and Gibb, 2007; Hamzeh et al., 2017; Zhai et al., 2014)

  • The early involvement and colocation of key project participants to enable shared goals and practices (Hall et al., 2018)

  • Long-term relationships (Lindgren and Emmitt, 2017)

  • Coordination, collaborative development and reciprocal communication (Kahkonen, 2015)

  • A process of task sequence alignment, knowledge base alignment, and work allocation alignment (Alin et al., 2013)

Political
  • Rigid labour union rules (Said, 2015)

  • The absence of government regulations and incentives (Mao et al., 2015 

  • Complex and time-consuming regulative procedures (Halman et al., 2008)

  • The lack of government incentives (Pan et al., 2012)

  • Developers and the government can influence decision-making processes through policies, education and communication of best practices and experiences (Blayse and Manley, 2004; Goodier and Gibb, 2007; Hedgren and Stehn, 2014; Mao et al., 2015; Hanna et al., 2017; Wuni and Shen, 2019)

  • Decision-making based on dialogue and relationships (Hedgren and Stehn, 2014)

Technical
  • Clients’ lack of technical knowledge of the building process and the effects of their decisions on the process (Halman et al., 2008)

  • Clients not familiar with new methods and techniques or believe that offsite construction is more expensive than traditional construction (Goodier and Gibb, 2007; Mao et al., 2015; Hong et al., 2018)

  • Complex interfaces between subsystems (Jaillon et al., 2009)

  • The lack of design-production interfaces (Jaillon et al., 2009)

  • Transportation regulations may limit module sizes (Gibb and Isack, 2003; Bekdik et al., 2016; Choi et al., 2017)

  • Integration of design, construction and logistics processes (Gibb and Isack, 2003; Goodier and Gibb, 2007; Franz et al., 2013; Pan et al., 2008; Bekdik et al., 2016; Choi et al., 2017; Hamzeh et al., 2017; Taylor and Levitt, 2004; Zhai et al., 2014)

  • Repetition and standardisation in design solutions (Pan et al., 2012; Mao et al., 2015; Bekdik et al., 2016)

  • Early planning of PPMOF solutions and logistics (Pan et al., 2012)

  • System integrators (Pisano and Teece, 2007; Rutten et al., 2009; Robinson et al., 2016; Steinhardt et al., 2020)

  • Training programs for personnel and protocols for working with suppliers (Hanna et al., 2017)

Economic
  • Price is the most important decision criterion for selecting the building system (Pan et al., 2012; Mao et al., 2015)

  • The scarcity and high price of building land (Halman et al., 2008)

  • Project-based business models of competitive bidding (Katila et al., 2018; Hall et al., 2020)

  • Relational contracts and target value design (Hall et al., 2018)

  • Reduced labour wages (Hanna et al., 2017)

  • A balance between offering, operational platform and market position of a business model (Lessing and Brege, 2018)

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