Stephen Pryke

Social Network Analysis in Construction

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The objective of the book is to make accessible the ways in which social network analysis (SNA) may be used to observe, monitor and analyse systems and relationships in major construction project coalitions. Although this has been an established analytical technique in the US for some time, it is only now being developed in the UK.

Having spent nearly two decades investigating major project relationships using SNA, the author has brought together mathematical and sociological methods, and major project relationships in a manner that will inspire both academic interest and a desire to apply these concepts and techniques to live construction projects. Case studies include projects from two of the UKs largest property developers, the UK Ministry of Defence and a County Council.

SNA is innovative - but potentially inaccessible to project management analysts and practitioners. This book will provide clear and relevant explanation and illustration of the possibilities of using SNA in a major project environment.

In addition to offering the potential; for sophisticated retrospective analysis of a wide range of systems associated with construction and engineering project coalitions, the author looks at how we might apply the network analysis findings to the design and management of project and supply chain networks.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 191mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 636g
• ISBN-13: 9781118343913
• ISBN-10: 1118343913
• Artikelnr.: 36519855

Autorenporträt

The author Dr Stephen Pryke is a Senior Lecturer in Project Management at The Bartlett School, University College London and Director of Studies for the MSc Project and Enterprise Management programme there. He has published a number of books and papers in leading research journals dealing with supply chain management, social network analysis and the legal aspects of procurement reforms in the UK. His work has been presented to a number of international research conferences and his work on procurement and project management systems in France and China has been published by the RICS. He has provided project management training and consultancy to a number of major European companies and is a consultant to Durland Consulting in Chicago, USA. Prior to entering academia in the mid 1990s, he ran his own consultancy and held a number of senior project management positions in both the public and private sectors within the UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Chapter One - Introduction
Aim of the study
Context for the study
Problems with existing forms of analysis and visualisation
Solutions to the problems
Structure of the book Chapter Two - Establishing the Need for a New Analytical Approach
A review of existing approaches to the analysis of
management systems
Graphical approaches to analysis and presentation of management concepts
Difficulties encountered in formulating a means of presenting the governance of major projects
A systems analysis approach to project management
Process protocol
Overcoming the problems identified
A social network analysis approach to the analysis and visualisation of organisational forms Chapter Three - Theoretical Framework
Developing a theoretical framework
Adaptation or transformation
Five basic premises for taking a network perspective
Types of network actor relations
Density or cohesion of contractual, performance incentive and information exchange networks
Point centrality within networks
Other issues relating to the relevance of centrality as a measure
Network densities and actor centrality measured jointly
What might we gain from the adoption of a network perspective? Chapter Four - Methodology
Research in construction project organisations
The choice between qualitative and quantitative research methods
On case studies
A profile of case studies for this research project
Gaining access to the case study projects
Criteria for selection of case studies
Data collection and analysis
Data collection and use of questionnaire Chapter Five - Outline of the Four Case Studies
Description of the construction works
Project actors
Methodological issues
Data gathering
Interpretation of interviewee comments
Case study selection criteria
General observations
Analysis of data
Observations arising out of the analysis Chapter Six - Conclusions Conclusions Future research