Abstract

This paper investigates the emergence of collaboration on a UK construction project pioneering a novel form of project procurement (Integrated Project Insurance: IPI). Using a projects-as-practice lens and an action research approach, examination of linked episodes of project activity chart the unfolding of collaboration praxis in an IPI context through the frequent interplays of praxis (situated doings), practice (rules, values, policies) and practitioners working together. The analysis focuses on important requirements in IPI: that project practitioners, supported by a facilitator, collaborate to develop joint solutions to project requirements and share responsibility for them. Findings show how practitioners understood how to collaborate through the progressive enactment of working together rather than by developing a prior agreement about what collaboration would involve. Thus, the doing of collaboration mattered more than sayings about it in how practitioners created meaning in developing new collaboration praxis. Through this enactment the facilitator role is understood more as a practitioner in the development of collaboration praxis than solely as a convenor of collaboration. Findings also show how the micro-activities of practitioners may be illuminated using a projects-as-practice lens combined with a focus on interconnected episodes of project life to understand the emergence of praxis on construction projects.

摘要

本文调查了英国建设项目合作的出现，开创了一种新的项目采购形式（综合项目保险：IPI）。使用项目作为实践的视角和行动研究方法，通过实践（情境行为）、实践（规则、价值观、政策）的频繁相互作用，对项目活动的相关事件进行检查，从而绘制出 IPI 背景下协作实践的展开和从业者一起工作。分析侧重于 IPI 中的重要要求：项目从业者在协调人的支持下，合作开发项目要求的联合解决方案并分担责任。调查结果显示了从业者如何理解如何通过逐步制定共同工作而不是通过事先就合作涉及的内容达成一致。因此，在从业者如何在开发新的协作实践中创造意义方面，协作的进行比对其说的更重要。通过这一颁布，促进者的角色更多地被理解为协作实践发展的实践者，而不仅仅是协作的召集人。调查结果还展示了如何使用项目即实践镜头结合对项目生活中相互关联的情节的关注来阐明从业者的微观活动，以了解建筑项目中实践的出现。在从业者如何在开发新的协作实践中创造意义方面，协作的进行比对其说的更重要。通过这一颁布，促进者的角色更多地被理解为协作实践发展的实践者，而不仅仅是协作的召集人。调查结果还显示了如何使用项目即实践镜头结合对项目生活中相互关联的情节的关注来阐明从业者的微观活动，以了解建筑项目中实践的出现。在从业者如何在开发新的协作实践中创造意义方面，协作的进行比对其说的更重要。通过这一颁布，促进者的角色更多地被理解为协作实践发展的实践者，而不仅仅是协作的召集人。调查结果还展示了如何使用项目即实践镜头结合对项目生活中相互关联的情节的关注来阐明从业者的微观活动，以了解建筑项目中实践的出现。