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Conceptualizing environmental expertise through the lens of institutional work

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  • Pernilla Gluch
  • Petra Bosch-Sijtsema

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Although a growing number of environmental experts have entered the scene within the Architecture Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry, studies of environmental experts’ role and agency remain limited. In order to gain more clarity regarding the agency of environmental experts in relation to construction project practice the theoretical lens of institutional work is applied. A multidimensional framework, linking agency with three forms of institutional work, is used in a conceptual discussion on how environmental experts adopt various types of agency to influence institutional change towards a sustainable development of the AEC industry. Due to the fragmented and distributed project-based environment, the application of institutional work in the AEC industry uncovers tensions between various forms of institutional work processes. A dynamic model is therefore suggested to capture these tensions. Besides illustrating tensions, the model envisions the locked-in maintaining of institutions performed by iterative and practical-evaluative agency.

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  • Pernilla Gluch & Petra Bosch-Sijtsema, 2016. "Conceptualizing environmental expertise through the lens of institutional work," Construction Management and Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 34(7-8), pages 522-535, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:conmgt:v:34:y:2016:i:7-8:p:522-535
    DOI: 10.1080/01446193.2016.1177191
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    1. Pernilla Gluch & Stina Månsson, 2021. "Taking Lead for Sustainability: Environmental Managers as Institutional Entrepreneurs," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(7), pages 1-18, April.
    2. Rosalie Callway & Helen Pineo & Gemma Moore, 2020. "Understanding the Role of Standards in the Negotiation of a Healthy Built Environment," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(23), pages 1-26, November.
    3. Catherine Willan & Kathryn B. Janda & David Kenington, 2021. "Seeking the Pressure Points: Catalysing Low Carbon Changes from the Middle-Out in Offices and Schools," Energies, MDPI, vol. 14(23), pages 1-21, December.

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