Influences on Innovation Benefits During Implementation: Client's Perspective

This study investigates critical factors that significantly affect the benefits of an innovation to the clients and the project as a whole during implementation from the perspective of construction clients. A survey was conducted in Hong Kong, and data from 35 projects that had adopted innovations were collected via mailed questionnaires from project clients. The questionnaire requested respondents to provide specific data about their projects, the type of innovations adopted, and the enablers and barriers to innovation. The authors found that innovative solutions were particularly beneficial if they were mainly intended to solve technical difficulties in projects and if they were implemented by forming separate implementation teams and by establishing coordination and monitoring mechanisms at the project level. Moreover, the authors found that the construction clients' technical capabilities, provision of special training opportunities, and management interests before and after the innovation was implemented were also factors in attaining innovation benefits.

Availability:
- Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/oclc/8675438
Authors:
- Ling, Florence Y Y
Publication Date: 2007-4

Language

English

Media Info

Media Type: Print
Features: Appendices; References; Tables;
Pagination: pp 306-315
Serial:
- Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
- Volume: 133
- Issue Number: 4
- Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
- ISSN: 0733-9364
- EISSN: 1943-7862
- Serial URL: http://ascelibrary.org/journal/jcemd4

Subject/Index Terms

TRT Terms: Clients; Construction management; Data collection; Implementation; Innovation; Questionnaires; Surveys
Uncontrolled Terms: Perspective (Point of view); Respondents (Surveys)
Geographic Terms: Hong Kong (China)
Subject Areas: Construction; Highways; Research; I50: Construction and Supervision of Construction;

Filing Info

Accession Number: 01051521
Record Type: Publication
Files: TRIS
Created Date: Jun 3 2007 1:25PM