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Digital Transitions and Innovation in Construction Value Chains
Industrial Relations and Equitable Socio-technical Change
9781803924038 Edward Elgar Publishing
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This timely book provides an innovative study of the profound changes and latest challenges facing the construction sector. It adopts a socio-technical approach to analyse not only the role of technological factors, but also that of actors and their social dialogue and industrial relations.
This timely book provides an innovative study of the profound changes and latest challenges facing the construction sector. It adopts a socio-technical approach to analyse not only the role of technological factors, but also that of actors and their social dialogue and industrial relations.
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This timely book provides an innovative study of the profound changes and latest challenges facing the construction sector. It adopts a socio-technical approach to analyse not only the role of technological factors, but also that of actors and their social dialogue and industrial relations.
Digital Transitions and Innovation in Construction Value Chains investigates evolution within the construction sector relating to increased digitalization, including the growing use of smart devices and building information modeling (BIM) applications. Drawing on research from across Europe, chapters detail methodologies based on three main data sources: direct observation, documentary analysis and qualitative survey tools. Ultimately, they highlight the advantages and potential disadvantages of the role of social dialogue and collective bargaining for the democratic management of digitalization in the sector.
Academics and researchers within the fields of economics, innovation and construction management will find the methodologies and conclusions presented within this book to be of great benefit. Practitioners in the construction sector will also appreciate the insights offered.
Digital Transitions and Innovation in Construction Value Chains investigates evolution within the construction sector relating to increased digitalization, including the growing use of smart devices and building information modeling (BIM) applications. Drawing on research from across Europe, chapters detail methodologies based on three main data sources: direct observation, documentary analysis and qualitative survey tools. Ultimately, they highlight the advantages and potential disadvantages of the role of social dialogue and collective bargaining for the democratic management of digitalization in the sector.
Academics and researchers within the fields of economics, innovation and construction management will find the methodologies and conclusions presented within this book to be of great benefit. Practitioners in the construction sector will also appreciate the insights offered.
Critical Acclaim
‘At last, a book that carefully considers both the potential dangers of digitalisation as well as the benefits for the construction workforce, including through improved work organisation and qualifications, if social partners - and especially the unions - across Europe, play a key role in its implementation, control and monitoring. This should be essential reading for all those concerned with innovation, industrial relations, and achieving an equitable society.’
– Linda Clarke, University of Westminster, UK
‘The construction sector finds itself at the epicentre of both the digital and the green transition but has been much less researched than the manufacturing sector. Filling this gap, this book provides a comparative analysis across the value chain with a systemic vision of change that lays down a framework for a just socio-technical transition towards digitalisation.’
– Bela Galgoczi, European Trade Union Institute, Belgium
– Linda Clarke, University of Westminster, UK
‘The construction sector finds itself at the epicentre of both the digital and the green transition but has been much less researched than the manufacturing sector. Filling this gap, this book provides a comparative analysis across the value chain with a systemic vision of change that lays down a framework for a just socio-technical transition towards digitalisation.’
– Bela Galgoczi, European Trade Union Institute, Belgium
Contributors
Contributors: Alessandro Bellocchi, Nicoletta Brachini, Jesús Cruces, Gianluca De Angelis, Luis de la Fuente, Daniele Di Nunzio, Marine Franssen, Tim Harbecke, Gernot Mühge, Frédéric Naedenoen, Serena Rugiero, Yuliya Simeonova, Christophe Teissier, Svetla Toneva, Giuseppe Travaglini
Contents
Contents:
1 The role of industrial relations for equitable
socio-technical change in construction value chains: overview 1
Serena Rugiero and Daniele Di Nunzio
2 A quantitative analysis of the European construction
sector: productivity, investment, and competitiveness 18
Alessandro Bellocchi and Giuseppe Travaglini
3 The Belgian construction sector: growing practices of
digitalization and the challenge of relevant social dialogue
practices 50
Marine Franssen and Frédéric Naedenoen
4 Digital transformation in the construction sector in
Bulgaria and the role of the social partners 67
Yuliya Simeonova and Svetla Toneva
5 Digital transformation in the French construction
sector: articulating technological transformation with
a socio-economic transition 80
Christophe Teissier
6 Is construction work becoming more industrial and
off-site? Digitalisation in the construction sector in Germany 98
Gernot Mühge and Tim Harbecke
7 Digitisation in the Italian construction sector: the
constructive process beyond the productive perimeter 116
Gianluca De Angelis, Daniele Di Nunzio, Serena Rugiero
and Nicoletta Brachini
8 Digitisation of construction in Spain: changes in value
chains, work organisation and working conditions 134
Jesús Cruces Aguilera and Luis de la Fuente Sanz
9 Comparative analysis of the country case studies 154
Daniele Di Nunzio and Serena Rugiero
10 Final considerations and policy recommendations 193
Daniele Di Nunzio and Serena Rugiero
Index
1 The role of industrial relations for equitable
socio-technical change in construction value chains: overview 1
Serena Rugiero and Daniele Di Nunzio
2 A quantitative analysis of the European construction
sector: productivity, investment, and competitiveness 18
Alessandro Bellocchi and Giuseppe Travaglini
3 The Belgian construction sector: growing practices of
digitalization and the challenge of relevant social dialogue
practices 50
Marine Franssen and Frédéric Naedenoen
4 Digital transformation in the construction sector in
Bulgaria and the role of the social partners 67
Yuliya Simeonova and Svetla Toneva
5 Digital transformation in the French construction
sector: articulating technological transformation with
a socio-economic transition 80
Christophe Teissier
6 Is construction work becoming more industrial and
off-site? Digitalisation in the construction sector in Germany 98
Gernot Mühge and Tim Harbecke
7 Digitisation in the Italian construction sector: the
constructive process beyond the productive perimeter 116
Gianluca De Angelis, Daniele Di Nunzio, Serena Rugiero
and Nicoletta Brachini
8 Digitisation of construction in Spain: changes in value
chains, work organisation and working conditions 134
Jesús Cruces Aguilera and Luis de la Fuente Sanz
9 Comparative analysis of the country case studies 154
Daniele Di Nunzio and Serena Rugiero
10 Final considerations and policy recommendations 193
Daniele Di Nunzio and Serena Rugiero
Index
