TY  - CONF
TI  - Geographical Distribution of Interest and Publications on Lean Construction
AU  - Engebø, Atle
AU  - Drevland, Frode
AU  - Lohne, Jardar
AU  - Shkmot, Nawras
AU  - Lædre, Ola
AD  - Scientific assistant, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, +47 905 71 902, atle.engebo@ntnu.no
AD  - Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, +47 920 64 262, frode.drevland@ntnu.no
AD  - Research scientist, dr. art., Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, +47 934 44 930, Jardar.lohne@ntnu.no
AD  - Co-Founder & CFO, Paramount Decisions, San Francisco, USA, +47 41409992, nawras@paramountdecisions.com
AD  - Associate Professor, dr. ing., Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, +47 911 89 938, ola.ladre@ntnu.no
PY  - 2017
DA  - 2017/07/09
T2  - 25th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction
C3  - 25th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction
CY  - Heraklion, Greece
SP  - 285
EP  - 292
DO  - 10.24928/2017/0121
SN  - 2309-0979 (ISSN)
AB  - It is a common view that certain countries show more interest in Lean Construction Principles than others. Some researchers within the Lean Construction community publish more and are more cited than others. The paper address the following research questions: 1) Where do those who show interest in Lean Construction come from? And 2) Is there any connection between geographical distribution of academic publications and where those who show interest in Lean Construction come from? The research is based on empirical data collected from analysis of data traffic from the IGLC web page and the Lean Construction Blog. It also consists of a registration of what countries the authors at IGLC’s annual conference and in the Lean Construction Journal come from. The analysis of the data collected validates that specific countries show more interest in lean construction than other. When publications and web-traffic were corrected for number of inhabitant's country-bycountry, the findings shows that there was a strong positive connection between the two parameters. This study could serve as a good basis for further studies on why some countries are more open to new ideas regarding construction and construction management.
KW  - People
KW  - Culture and Change; lean expansion; mapping; web traffic
L1  - https://www.iglc.net/papers/details/1405/pdf
UR  - https://www.iglc.net/papers/details/1405
DB  - IGLC.net
LA  - English
N1  - Export date: 04 October 2026
ER  -