Making sense of ‘new age data sets’: researching from afar

Johan Ninan; Mathangi Krishnamurthy; Ashwin Mahalingam

doi:10.4337/9781800375451.00017

Making sense of ‘new age data sets’: researching from afar

Johan Ninan
, Mathangi Krishnamurthy
, Ashwin Mahalingam

Integral Design & Management

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This chapter considers the central role of uncertainty for cognition and action in construction project organising with a focus on how project practitioners think about the future. It takes a cognitive approach to uncertainty in the context of a broader information processing approach to decision-making in organisations. The chapter’s main concern is the failure of this approach to connect cognition through to action. The chapter presents the UnCoCoH (Un-Certain Complex Complicated Hidden) model as a tool to assist in recognising the transition from individual cognition to collective action. It also highlights the role of narratives for stabilising uncertainty through this transition. This provides a foundation for working towards the development of a projectivity perspective in construction project organising and advancing a research agenda for this program of research.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	A Research Agenda for Construction Management
Editors	Roine Leiringer, Andy Dainty
Place of Publication	Cheltenham, UKe
Publisher	Edward Elgar Publishing
Chapter	11
Pages	243–264
Number of pages	22
ISBN (Electronic)	9781800375451
ISBN (Print)	9781800375444
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800375451.00017
Publication status	Published - 2023

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Name	Elgar Research Agendas
Publisher	Edward Elgar Publishing

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A Research Agenda for Construction Management. ed. / Roine Leiringer; Andy Dainty. Cheltenham, UKe: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023. p. 243–264 (Elgar Research Agendas).

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