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Capturing knowledge in construction projects: Knowledge platform for contractors
Date
2008-04-01
Author
Kivrak, Serkan
Arslan, Gokhan
Dikmen Toker, İrem
Birgönül, Mustafa Talat
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Managing knowledge effectively is critical to the survival and advance of a company, especially in project-based industries such as construction. However, capturing knowledge in construction projects is a tedious task, as knowledge is usually experience based, tacit, and hard to pass on to others. In this study, a survey was carried out among eight leading Turkish construction contractors that are operating within the international construction market. The specific objectives of this survey are to find out how the tacit and explicit knowledge are captured, stored, shared, and used in forthcoming projects, as well as major drivers and barriers for knowledge management. Based on the survey, it was determined that most of these firms do not have a knowledge management strategy and a systematic way of capturing and storing tacit knowledge. A conceptual framework is proposed to formalize the knowledge-capturing process within construction companies. To demonstrate how the conceptual framework can be implemented in practice, a Web-based system, namely, Knowledge Platform for Contractors (KPfC) is presented. It is hypothesized that KPfC can be used to manage both tacit and explicit knowledge effectively in construction projects.
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Management Science and Operations Research
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General Engineering
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Strategy and Management
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Industrial relations
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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/36621
Journal
JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT IN ENGINEERING
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1061/(asce)0742-597x(2008)24:2(87)
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S. Kivrak, G. Arslan, İ. Dikmen Toker, and M. T. Birgönül, “Capturing knowledge in construction projects: Knowledge platform for contractors,”
JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT IN ENGINEERING
, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 87–95, 2008, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/36621.