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Amadi, C, Carrillo, P and Tuuli, M (2019) PPP projects: improvements in stakeholder management. Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, 27(02), 544–60.

Amadi, C, Carrillo, P and Tuuli, M (2018) Stakeholder management in PPP projects: external stakeholders’ perspective. Built Environment Project and Asset Management, 8(04), 403–14.

Amadi, C, Carrillo, P and Tuuli, M (2014) Stakeholder management in public private partnership projects in Nigeria: Towards a research agenda. In: Raiden, A and Aboagye-Nimo, E (Eds.), Proceedings 30th Annual ARCOM Conference, 1-3 September 2014, Portsmouth, UK, Association of Researchers in Construction Management, 423–32.

Blay, K B, Tuuli, M M and France-Mensah, J (2019) Managing change in BIM-Level 2 projects: benefits, challenges, and opportunities. Built Environment Project and Asset Management, 9(05), 581–96.

Gunathilaka S, Tuuli M M and Dainty A R J (2013) Critical analysis of research on project success in construction management journals. 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, 979–988.

Koh T Y, Tuuli M M and Rowlinson S (2013) A relational approach to high reliability organising for construction project safety: a conceptual framework. 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, 369–379.

Liu, A M M, Fellows, R and Tuuli, M M (2011) The role of corporate citizenship values in promoting corporate social performance: towards a conceptual model and a research agenda. Construction Management and Economics, 29(02), 173–83.

Sackey, E, Tuuli, M and Dainty, A (2019) Expansive learning in contemporary construction organisations. Built Environment Project and Asset Management, 9(03), 383–98.

Tuuli, M and Acquah, S (2012) Do you feel what I feel? Empowerment contagion in project teams. In: Smith, S.D (Ed.), Proceedings 28th Annual ARCOM Conference, 3-5 September 2012, Edinburgh, UK. Association of Researchers in Construction Management, 563–74.

Tuuli, M M (2009) Empowerment and control dynamics in project teams: a multilevel examination of the antecedents and jobperformance consequences, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Hong Kong.

Tuuli, M M and Koh, S R T Y (2009) Portfolio of control modes in project teams: A Hong Kong case study. 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, 927–37.

• Type: Conference Proceedings
• Keywords: empowerment; formal control; Hong Kong; informal control; portfolio of control
• ISBN/ISSN: 978-0-9552390-1-4
• URL: http://www.arcom.ac.uk/-docs/proceedings/ar2009-0927-0937_Tuuli_Rowlinson_and_Koh.pdf
• Abstract:
  The management of projects through various planning and control tools has been described essentially as rebureaucratisation which increases control over individuals, teams and organisations through ideologies of efficiency and performativity and, thus, aspire a new form of iron cage of project rationality. Yet, it has also been argued that certain characteristics of the project setting makes it an ideal environment for the empowerment of individuals and teams. The manifestations of control in project teams are examined through a case study of a Hong Kong public housing development project. Control in this context is viewed broadly as encompassing all devices and systems employed to ensure that acts, behaviours and decisions of individuals, teams and organisations are consistent with meeting organisational or project goals, objectives and strategies. The data was collected through documentary analysis, passive observations and semi-structured face-to-face interviews, and analysed using descriptive methods. The findings indicate that all stakeholders implement a portfolio of control modes comprising both formal (i.e. behaviour-based and outcome-based) and informal (i.e. clan and self) control mechanisms which are not necessarily incompatible. A portfolio of control modes appears necessary because formal modes of control are static in nature and can become redundant in dealing fully with the evolving nature of the project environment in which plans, targets and procedures are often not immutable but fluid and changeable. Controllers design new control mechanisms to help in implementing the formal controls already in place or invoke informal control modes which are more responsive to changing project conditions and particularly appropriate when uncertainty is high, knowledge of the transformation process is imperfect and outputs are immeasurable. The control of projects is therefore not only a function of what formal control mechanisms stakeholders put in place, but what informal control mechanisms those being controlled also put in place to augment the inadequacies of formal control.

Tuuli, M M and Rowlinson, S (2009) Empowerment in project teams: a multilevel examination of the job performance implications. Construction Management and Economics, 27(05), 473–98.

Tuuli, M M and Rowlinson, S (2010) Impact of leadership style and team context on psychological empowerment in construction project teams. In: Egbu, C (Ed.), Proceedings 26th Annual ARCOM Conference, 6-8 September 2010, Leeds, UK. Association of Researchers in Construction Management, Vol. 1, 411–20.

Tuuli, M M and Rowlinson, S (2009) Performance Consequences of Psychological Empowerment. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 135(12), 1334–47.

Tuuli, M M and Rowlinson, S (2007) Towards a conceptual framework of empowerment and job performance in project teams. In: Boyd, D (Ed.), Proceedings 23rd Annual ARCOM Conference, 3-5 September 2007, Belfast, UK. Association of Researchers in Construction Management, Vol. 1, 3–12.

Tuuli, M M and Rowlinson, S (2010) What empowers individuals and teams in project settings? A critical incident analysis. Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, 17(01), 20.

Tuuli, M M, Rowlinson, S and Koh, T Y (2010) Control modes and mechanisms in construction project teams: drivers and consequences. Construction Management and Economics, 28(05), 451–65.

Tuuli, M M, Rowlinson, S and Koh, T Y (2010) Dynamics of control in construction project teams. Construction Management and Economics, 28(02), 202.