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Factors that influence a construction company's sustainable innovation maturity
Construction companies emit large amounts of greenhouse gasses and in order to reduce their emissions enough to reach the Paris agreement they need to be innovative. However, the construction industry is lagging in innovation and do not know what to focus on to evolve its maturity regarding sustainable innovations. To aid construction companies to understand and improve their sustainable innovations capabilities, this study identified the factors that influence their maturity regarding producing, adopting and introducing sustainable innovations. The factors were then combined to develop the Sustainable Innovation Capabilities Maturity Assessment (SICMA), an assessment tool that measures a construction company’s sustainable innovation maturity. In order to identify those factors a qualitative case study approach was used and twelve semi-structured interviews were conducted with managers at a construction company, Peab. The empirical result and analysis show that 61 factors divided in twelve themes may influence the maturity of a generic construction company. SICMA is based on the factors identified during the interviews and previous research within fields related to the subject, i.e., sustainability, construction, innovation, organizational structure and change. The tool measures 20 factors by giving statements and using the capability maturity models five-point scale in order for companies to self-assess. We concluded that seven themes need to be measured to understand the construction company's maturity regarding adopting sustainable innovation; collaborations and cooperation, customers, management and leadership, processes, culture, resources, and structure. Furthermore, we concluded that previous tools measuring innovation capabilities in a generic industry may not be suited for the construction industry since customers have more influence on a construction company's actions regarding sustainable innovation.
Factors that influence a construction company's sustainable innovation maturity
Construction companies emit large amounts of greenhouse gasses and in order to reduce their emissions enough to reach the Paris agreement they need to be innovative. However, the construction industry is lagging in innovation and do not know what to focus on to evolve its maturity regarding sustainable innovations. To aid construction companies to understand and improve their sustainable innovations capabilities, this study identified the factors that influence their maturity regarding producing, adopting and introducing sustainable innovations. The factors were then combined to develop the Sustainable Innovation Capabilities Maturity Assessment (SICMA), an assessment tool that measures a construction company’s sustainable innovation maturity. In order to identify those factors a qualitative case study approach was used and twelve semi-structured interviews were conducted with managers at a construction company, Peab. The empirical result and analysis show that 61 factors divided in twelve themes may influence the maturity of a generic construction company. SICMA is based on the factors identified during the interviews and previous research within fields related to the subject, i.e., sustainability, construction, innovation, organizational structure and change. The tool measures 20 factors by giving statements and using the capability maturity models five-point scale in order for companies to self-assess. We concluded that seven themes need to be measured to understand the construction company's maturity regarding adopting sustainable innovation; collaborations and cooperation, customers, management and leadership, processes, culture, resources, and structure. Furthermore, we concluded that previous tools measuring innovation capabilities in a generic industry may not be suited for the construction industry since customers have more influence on a construction company's actions regarding sustainable innovation.
Factors that influence a construction company's sustainable innovation maturity
Johansson, Anna (author) / Opseth, Mathilda (author)
2021-01-01
Theses
Electronic Resource
English
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