Digital transitions and innovation in construction value chains: industrial relations and equitable socio-technical change
Rugiero, Serena ; Di Nunzio, Daniele
Edward Elgar - Cheltenham
2023
220 p.
construction industry ; innovation ; just transition ; labour relations ; quality of working life
Belgium ; Bulgaria ; France ; Germany ; Italy ; Spain
Construction industry
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781803924045
English
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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."
This work is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Table of 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
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