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Culture & construction : defining culture in construction; Culture and construction : defining culture in construction

International Construction Specialty Conference (5th : 2015 : Vancouver, B.C.); Canadian Society for Civil Engineering

The idea of culture has become a hot topic in construction engineering research. However, this term is used with many meanings. As such, the objective of this paper is to present a content analysis of the online record of ASCE Journal of Construction Engineering and Management (JCEM). A 2014 keyword search for “culture” in JCEM returned 557 articles. The authors reviewed the abstracts of each paper to categorize them according to the purpose statement: international markets (70 articles), safety (63 articles), and collaborative working arrangements (40 articles) emerged as the most frequent themes of the articles. The identified papers were then downloaded in full text form and imported into QSR NVivo, a qualitative coding software package. These articles were then searched for use of the word culture in conventional content analysis. Definitions of culture were extracted from the articles presenting a wide array of interpretations with respect to culture. Finally, this paper reviews the various theoretical bases for culture used in each category, and makes recommendations for future research in culture and construction based on the findings.

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2015-11-25

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 Canada

http://hdl.handle.net/2429/53837

Froese, T. M., Newton, L., Sadeghpour, F. & Vanier, D. J. (EDs.) (2015). Proceedings of ICSC15: The Canadian Society for Civil Engineering 5th International/11th Construction Specialty Conference, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. June 7-10.

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