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Wild, A (2003) ‘Iron triangles’ or ‘holy trinities’: ‘time’ or ‘temporality’ in construction project management. In: Greenwood, D J (Ed.), Proceedings 19th Annual ARCOM Conference, 3-5 September 2003, Brighton, UK. Association of Researchers in Construction Management, Vol. 2, 495–504.
- Type: Conference Proceedings
- Keywords: heterogeneity; inferential; qualitative; time
- ISBN/ISSN: 0 9534161 8 6
- URL: http://www.arcom.ac.uk/-docs/proceedings/ar2003-495-504_Wild.pdf
- Abstract:
Time is presented as unproblematic in construction. There is a view that participants share a linear and rational view of time. Given the range of players in construction the realism of this is questioned. A literature review focuses on possible conflicting perspectives on time in a project. A comparison is offered between 1950s Tavistock research into coalmining and construction in the 1960s and the Building Industry Communications Research Project, both Socio-technical in inspiration. Temporal/spatial dispersal of production and the instability of the organizational ground undermine production-engineering approaches but permit access to the problem of time. More recent publications are drawn into the paper, which raises wider issues as a prelude to research.