TY - JOUR
T1 - Improving construction industrialization practices from a socio-technical system perspective
T2 - A hong kong case
AU - Jin, Xin
AU - Shen, Geoffrey Q.P.
AU - Ekanayake, E. M.A.C.
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments: The authors wish to thank the Research Grants Council, the Innovation and Technology Commission, the Policy Innovation and Co-ordination Office of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, the Research Institute for Sustainable Urban Development, and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University for the funding support to the research which has contributed to the preparation of this paper.
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PY - 2021/9/1
Y1 - 2021/9/1
N2 - Construction Industrialization (CI) tends to improve industrial performance and contrib-utes substantially towards global sustainability. Considering these merits, many countries and re-gions, including Hong Kong, have released policies to promote CI uptake. However, those policy interventions ignore the dynamic influence of stakeholders and technologies, which significantly influence the efficient management of CI. In response, this study aimed to objectively depict a real socio-technical system of CI uptake based on a representative case study in Hong Kong. Further, this study identified the critical issues associated with the CI uptake and proposed policy-related recommendations to overcome the key issues. In addition, this study proposed a novel approach based on two-mode social network analysis to facilitate the analysis from a socio-technical perspec-tive. Theoretically, this depicts the interactions of construction industry stakeholders and artifacts within a dynamic, complex socio-technical environment, indicating a new stance for construction management. Finally, this research also provides valuable implications for the government to antic-ipate the impact of different CI policies on promoting its uptake within the complex socio-technical system.
AB - Construction Industrialization (CI) tends to improve industrial performance and contrib-utes substantially towards global sustainability. Considering these merits, many countries and re-gions, including Hong Kong, have released policies to promote CI uptake. However, those policy interventions ignore the dynamic influence of stakeholders and technologies, which significantly influence the efficient management of CI. In response, this study aimed to objectively depict a real socio-technical system of CI uptake based on a representative case study in Hong Kong. Further, this study identified the critical issues associated with the CI uptake and proposed policy-related recommendations to overcome the key issues. In addition, this study proposed a novel approach based on two-mode social network analysis to facilitate the analysis from a socio-technical perspec-tive. Theoretically, this depicts the interactions of construction industry stakeholders and artifacts within a dynamic, complex socio-technical environment, indicating a new stance for construction management. Finally, this research also provides valuable implications for the government to antic-ipate the impact of different CI policies on promoting its uptake within the complex socio-technical system.
KW - Construction industrialization
KW - Hong kong
KW - Social network analysis
KW - Socio-technical system
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U2 - 10.3390/ijerph18179017
DO - 10.3390/ijerph18179017
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 34501607
AN - SCOPUS:85113516623
SN - 1661-7827
VL - 18
JO - International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
JF - International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
IS - 17
M1 - 9017
ER -