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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Volume 35, Issue 4, Pages 658-669Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijproman.2016.02.002
Keywords
Building information modelling (BIM); Institutional theory; Innovation diffusion; Innovation implementation motivations; Construction projects
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [71272046]
- Public Policy Research Funding Scheme in Hong Kong [2014.A6.054.15B]
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Grounded in institutional theory and the innovation diffusion literature, this paper identifies the motivations of designers and general contractors to implement BIM in construction projects, and investigates how different motivations are impacted by organisational BIM capability and other contextual factors. Results of factor analysis with survey data collected from China provide support for the theoretically developed motivation model which classifies BIM implementation motivations into four categories: image motives, reactive motives, project-based economic motives, cross-project economic motives. Hierarchical regression results suggest that although project participants will have stronger economic motivations to improve project performances as their BIM capability matures, this increase in economic motivations does not necessarily require a parallel decrease of desires to improve social image. Regression results also suggest that BIM implementation motivations relate to organisational ownership type and project characteristics. The findings contribute to a broadened understanding of the multi-dimensionality and dynamics of construction organisations' innovation implementation motivations. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. APM and IPMA. All rights reserved.
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