1. Managing Knowledge in the Construction Industry 2. Site Manager Work and the Use of Coaching 3. Architectural Work as Practice: Materialized Semiosis 4. Knowing the Concrete: Knowledge and Skills in a Specialist Construction Company 5. Knowledge and Construction Work: Concluding Remarks
Biography
Alexander Styhre is Professor of Operations Management in the School of Technology Management, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. He is the author, co-author and editor of thirteen books in the field of organization theory, including The Innovative Bureaucracy: Bureaucracy in the Age of Fluidity (Routledge, 2007).
"Managing Knowledge in the Construction Industry provides a challenging and stimulating account, invoking theoretical resources that are sometimes surprising, but consistently leading to interesting and useful insights."
"As a theoretically sophisticated, yet empirically grounded, window into the lived experience of various actors in the construction sector, the book has a great deal to offer."
- Nick Marshall, Centre for Research in Innovation Management, University of Brighton
