TY  - CONF
TI  - Implementing Lean Construction - A Practice Perspective
C1  - Oslo, Norway
C3  - 22nd Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction
SP  - 3
EP  - 14
PY  - 2014
AU  - Bygballe, Lena E.
AU  - Swärd, Anna
AD  - Associate professor, Centre for the Construction Industry, BI Norwegian Business School, +47 46 41 04 59, lena.bygballe@bi.no
AD  - Researcher, Centre for the Construction Industry, BI Norwegian Business School, +47 46 41 04 64, anna.r.s.sundberg@bi.no
ED  - Kalsaas, Bo Terje
ED  - Koskela, Lauri
ED  - Saurin, Tarcisio Abreu
AB  - This study uses a practice perspective to examine how lean project practices are implemented in construction firms. Implementing lean construction has proved to yield significant performance benefits. Nevertheless, implementation challenges continue to intrigue practitioners and academics alike. The study is based on a case of a construction firm, which is involved in implementing a lean project practice. Using a practice perspective allows us to capture the constitutive relationship between what actors within this firm actually do when they engage in the activities of lean construction, and the structural properties of the lean construction concept. The findings show that the lean project practice is implemented through an enactment and learning process that over time enables the practice to be created and recreated across the internal and external project organization. Implementing this new lean project practice is an ongoing process, through which the practice is translated and transformed by the actors engaged in the activities of using and implementing it. The paper contributes to the understanding of implementing lean construction by showing that such an implementation process will never be ‘finished’. Instead it is an ongoing learning and enactment process that involves both internal and external actors.
KW  - Lean construction
KW  - implementation
KW  - practice
KW  - enactment
KW  - learning
PB  - 
T2  - 22nd Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction
DA  - 2014/06/25
CY  - Oslo, Norway
L1  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/1022/pdf
L2  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/1022
N1  - Export Date: 25 April 2024
DB  - IGLC.net
DP  - IGLC
LA  - English
ER  -