TY  - CONF
TI  - Lean Construction and Organizational Knowledge Creation
AU  - Trentin, Bianca T.
AU  - Etges, Bernardo M. B. S.
AD  - M.Sc. Eng. Student, Lean Construction Consultant, Climb Consulting Group, University of Rio dos  Sinos, Porto Alegre, Brazil, bianca8tt@gmai.com, orcid.org/0000-0001-6023-0439
AD  - PhD Candidate, M.Sc. Eng., Founding-Partner at Climb Consulting Group, Federal University of Rio  Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil, bernardo.m.etges@gmail.com, orcid.org/0000-0002-3037-5597
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/07/14
T2  - Proc. 29th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC)
C3  - Proc. 29th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC)
CY  - Lima, Peru
SP  - 299
EP  - 308
DO  - 10.24928/2021/0149
AB  - It is essential for the construction industry to continuously create new knowledge, aiming at innovation and maintaining competitiveness. As for Lean Construction in addition to improving construction processes, the characteristic inherent in its implementation is that of creating collaborative, interdisciplinary moments with a high level of information sharing, which shows the great potential of the methodology for the creation of knowledge. This article sets out to analyze how people participating in Lean Construction implementation projects see the potential of Lean Construction for creating knowledge. To do so, in addition to a thorough review of the literature on the subject, the results of a form-based survey conducted with six Brazilian construction companies, partners of a consultancy company, are presented. The results show that everyone surveyed agrees that Lean Construction increases the sharing of information between people, the creation of improvement actions for projects, and finally, knowledge creation for the company. This perception is sharper in people who occupy management positions than in those in operational positions. Also, the present study concludes that the most effective way to generate organizational knowledge in Lean Construction implementation projects is to combine tools, methods and training that make use of both tacit and explicit knowledge.
KW  - Lean construction
KW  - tacit knowledge
KW  - explicit knowledge
KW  - learning
KW  - knowledge creation.
L1  - https://www.iglc.net/papers/details/1864/pdf
UR  - https://www.iglc.net/papers/details/1864
DB  - IGLC.net
LA  - English
N1  - Export date: 04 October 2026
ER  -