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Raisbeck P (2013) Time keeps on slippin', slippin', slippin' into the future: BIM, imaging and time on construction sights. In: Smith, S D and Ahiaga-Dagbui, D D (Eds.), Proceedings 29th Annual ARCOM Conference, 2-4 September 2013, Reading, UK, Association of Researchers in Construction Management, 1093–1102.

Raisbeck, P (2009) Considering design and ppp innovation: A review of design factors in PPP research. In: Dainty, A R J (Ed.), Proceedings 25th Annual ARCOM Conference, 7-9 September 2009, Nottingham, UK. Association of Researchers in Construction Management, Vol. 1, 239–47.

Raisbeck, P (2010) Investigating design as research: understanding R&D activities in Australian architectural practices. In: Egbu, C (Ed.), Proceedings 26th Annual ARCOM Conference, 6-8 September 2010, Leeds, UK. Association of Researchers in Construction Management, Vol. 1, 747–56.

Raisbeck, P (2019) Space Oddity: Spatial Design Strategies and Work Place Design . In: Gorse, C and Neilson, C J (Eds.), Proceedings 35th Annual ARCOM Conference, 2-4 September 2019, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, UK Association of Researchers in Construction Management, 184- 193.

Raisbeck, P (2021) Taking the Pulse: Developing a Model of Resilience Capital for Architectural Firms. In: Scott, L and Neilson, C J (Eds.), Proceedings 37th Annual ARCOM Conference, 6-7 September 2021, UK, Association of Researchers in Construction Management, 96-105.

Raisbeck, P (2016) The Architect as Gleaner: Design Practice as Performance in the Architectural Office. In: Chan, P W and Neilson, C J (Eds.), Proceedings 32nd Annual ARCOM Conference, 5-7 September 2016, Manchester UK. Association of Researchers in Construction Management, 771–780.

Raisbeck, P (2017) Tribes, Warlords And Transformers: An Institutional Logics Model Of The Architectural Profession . In: Chan, P W and Neilson, C J (Eds.), Proceedings 33rd Annual ARCOM Conference, 4-6 September 2017, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, UK. Association of Researchers in Construction Management, 471–480.

• Type: Conference Proceedings
• Keywords: Architecture, Architectural firms, Business plans, Institutional Logics.
• ISBN/ISSN: 978-0-9955463-1-8
• URL: http://www.arcom.ac.uk/-docs/proceedings/d194919ab07998c83aaa6825f811dae1.pdf
• Abstract:
  

  Architecture has often been described as profession divided by a foundational logic of aesthetics against one of production: Creatives versus Suits. The business plan is one way that architects have saught to reconcile the demands of design creativity and the need to be profitable. In the theory of practice, the business plan integrates and balances issues of strategy, available resources and operational contingencies. Thus, business plans provide a useful point of analysis into the institutional logics of the Australian architectural profession. These plans and the way they are formulated provide a window on the socially constructed material practices, assumptions and values and beliefs that shape the cognition and behavior of architectural firms. 

  Through qualitative interviews and a quantitative survey the different business planning practices in different sized Australian architectural firms is outlined. In overview, the extent to which firms utilise and employ business plans and associated planning methods is described. How these planning methods are inscribed into the educational curricula of architects is discussed. The details of business plans and planning processes are then evaluated. The institutional logics evident in business plans indicate the way in which architects structure their firms and how they collectively resolve conflicts between design thinking and the prosaics of efficiency.

  A model of instutional logics is proposed for the architectural profession that accounts for a range of reasoning schemas. This model incorporates the foundational logics of the aesthetic and business divide. But in addition it explores and suggests that several co-existing and layered institutional logics are at play in the profession. These logics are governed by concepts of gender, patronage, privilege, pedigree, gender, and an asceticism associated with the logics of craft. A logics of market survival is evident as a result of economic cycles of growth and decline. 

  The model establishes how the foundational logic of the creative-business divide hampers the architectural professions ability to change given the rise of new technologies and procurement systems. 

Raisbeck, P and Aibinu, A A (2010) Early stage cost estimation and the relationship of architects to quantity surveyors. In: Egbu, C (Ed.), Proceedings 26th Annual ARCOM Conference, 6-8 September 2010, Leeds, UK. Association of Researchers in Construction Management, Vol. 1, 53–61.

Raisbeck, P and Tang, L C M (2009) Humanistic and scientific knowledge management: a comparison of design practice between architects and engineers. In: Dainty, A R J (Ed.), Proceedings 25th Annual ARCOM Conference, 7-9 September 2009, Nottingham, UK. Association of Researchers in Construction Management, Vol. 2, 729–38.

Raisbeck, P, Millie, R and Maher, A (2010) Assessing integrated project delivery: a comparative analysis of IPD and alliance contracting procurement routes. In: Egbu, C (Ed.), Proceedings 26th Annual ARCOM Conference, 6-8 September 2010, Leeds, UK. Association of Researchers in Construction Management, Vol. 2, 1019–28.