建设项目可持续能力研究

本文将建设项目视为一个能自主利用各种资源的有机体,首先探讨建设项目可持续能力的概念及其特点,并就其生成机理过程构建了“金字塔”模型,介绍资源、能力集、建设项目可持续能力以及建筑企业可持续能力各层次的概念和相互逻辑关系。最后,分析如何培育和提升建设项目可持续能力,得出可以从建立协调机制、设置和完善管理制度以及促进信息沟通等三个方面达到目的。     

可持续建筑建设项目构建供应链模式研究

首先在分析可持续建筑发展现状的基础上,做出了可持续建筑建设项目需要构建供应链的基本判断,并分析了可持续建筑建设项目构建供应链的两个重要意义:降低可持续建筑的建设成本、推进可持续建筑的合作开发,然后提出了可持续建筑建设项目供应链的3种备选模式:"技术集成机构主导+第3方物流辅助"模式、"代建机构主导+第3方物流辅助"模式和"总承包商主导+第3方物流辅助"模式,最后分析了可持续建筑建设项目供应链的构建过程.     

因果模糊性对企业可持续竞争优势的影响研究

企业拥有的资源是企业长期发展和竞争优势之源。但在提高竞争优势的过程中,企业的资源能力是如何起到了作用,它与可持续竞争优势之间的影响关系到底如何,至今仍是一个因果模糊性的问题。文章从资源论出发,探讨了资源及其相关的概念,分析了资源与竞争优势之间的因果模糊性,论述了因果模糊性对企业竞争优势的影响,最后,提出了一个关于因果模糊性对企业可持续竞争优势影响的理论框架。     

落实科学发展观发挥审计“免疫系统”功能——开展建设项目跟踪审计的探讨

科学发展观是坚持以人为本,全面、协调、可持续的发展观,是我们不断创新审计理念和方法,树立科学审计观的重要指导思想。开展建设项目跟踪审计是贯彻落实科学发展观,发挥审计“免疫系统”功能,提高审计能力和水平的重要举措。这里,结合我局近年的工作实践,就开展建设项目跟踪审计有关问题作以探讨。     

油田现场施工的环境保护

油田建设项目施工具有涉及范围广、建设周期长等特点,因而施工过程中的废水、固废、噪声、粉尘、气味乃至化工材料极易对油田环境造成污染,若不加以有效控制,不仅会影响油田可持续生产和居民生活,更严重者将会对地球资源和生态环境产生巨大破坏。为此,油田建设项目施工过程中必须采取有效的措施防治环境污染并对现有污染作好治理工作。     

落实科学发展观发挥审计“免疫系统”功能——开展建设项目跟踪审计的探讨

科学发展观是坚持以人为本，全面、协调、可持续的发展观，是我们不断创新审计理念和方法，树立科学审计观的重要指导思想。开展建设项目跟踪审计是贯彻落实科学发展观，发挥审计“免疫系统”功能，提高审计能力和水平的重要举措。笔者结合锦州市审计局近年的审计工作实践，就开展建设项目跟踪审计有关问题作以探讨。     

试论建筑项目中的全过程造价管理

建筑行业的蓬勃发展,促进了建筑领域各行业的崛起,尤其是近些年引人关注的便是工程造价这个环节,工程造价是建设项目最重要的组成部分,最直接反应建设项目的资源运用情况。本文分析了建设项目全过程造价管理的概念,重点研究建设项目各阶段造价管理。     

基于全寿命周期理论的可持续建筑成本探究

本文介绍了基于全寿命周期理论的可持续建筑及施工的基本内涵,通过分析全寿命周期可持续建筑成本的基本影响因素,并与传统建设项目进行对比分析,运用相关计算模型,综合考虑可持续建筑自身成本以及环境和社会成本,得到了基于全寿命周期理论可持续建筑的成本优势,并对成本控制的原则进行了阐述。     

基于可持续增长的企业财务策略研究

可持续增长速度是衡量企业增长速度是否适宜的标尺,正确计量可持续增长速度,梳理影响企业可持续增长的制约因素,保证内部财务资源的平衡,是保证企业可持续增长的关键,也是企业财务管理目标的重要体现。本文正是基于这一思想,借鉴了国际财务学界权威的"希金斯可持续增长模型",着力从财务视角探讨了企业可持续增长的内涵、度量、制约因素、以及保持企业可持续发展的财务策略。     

试论企业核心竞争力及其培育

（一）核心竞争力的概念：核心竞争力（Core Competence），又译作核心能力或核心竞争能力。这一概念最早是由美国经济学家普拉哈拉德和哈默提出来的，是指企业（或企业集团）在竞争中获取、配置关键资源，能使企业形成并保持长期稳定的可持续竞争优势及稳定的超额利润的能力。     

建设项目评价理论方法研究

在阐明建设项目评价理论方法发展进程的基础上,分析了项目经济评价、环境评价和社会评价的理论基础,进而提出对项目本身评价的同时对项目实施企业进行评价、加强社会评价、开展可持续发展评价和在项目评价中引入信息化手段的几点思考。     

EPC承包模式下可持续设计管理

根据项目全生命周期理论和对建筑工程质量事故的调查数据,设计管理对建设项目管理尤为重要。EPC模式下的设计管理应当是可持续的过程,包括建筑产品设计的可持续,建设项目设计过程的可持续,总承包企业发展的可持续三个层次。每个层次的设计管理内容包括技术和管理问题,通过分析提出了相应的建议。     

基于可持续发展的渤海海峡跨海通道项目评估

从经济、社会和环境三个方面的表现指标建立基础设施项目可持续性评价的指标体系,对渤海海峡跨海通道项目在可行性研究阶段进行评价。基于可持续发展理论对通道进行了评估,评估结果显示渤海海峡跨海通道的建设对区域可持续发展的贡献较大;最后简要分析了渤海海峡跨海通道的经济、社会及环境可持续发展战略。     

The integration of sustainability within value management practices: A study of experienced value managers in the GCC countries

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) comprises the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Kingdom of Bahrain, and the states of Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates. These countries are fairly similar in terms of socioeconomic, commercial, and infrastructural development. Disappointingly perhaps, their thriving construction industries continue to score poorly in terms of sustainability. Although value management (VM) has been proposed as a potential mechanism for delivering sustainable construction projects in some countries, this idea has not yet been widely put into practice around the world. The aim of this article is to investigate this potential in the GCC countries through interviewing 17 experienced value managers from the GCC. The primary conclusion, derived from the viewpoints of these value managers, is that such an endeavor might be unviable at present, largely due to a lack of awareness with regard to sustainability issues in the GCC. Proposals are therefore provided to assist in a successful integration of sustainability into VM practices in the GCC region.     

Incenting managers toward the triple bottom line: An agency and social norm perspective

Research to date has identified CEO pay structure as an important factor in the environmental and social performance of the organization but has not considered how pay may influence these sustainability efforts at the middle‐management level. We address this void with an experimental manipulation of direct and indirect pay incentives for an environmental sustainability project and production cost savings project. Counter to our predictions, investment in sustainability versus cost savings is significantly lower when incentives for both projects are equivalent, and investment is only comparable when incentives for the sustainability project are superior. Further investigation using qualitative data attributes this to differences in the salient social norms that individuals hold and an apparent undervaluing of the indirect incentive derived through sustainability's contribution to cost savings. The results shed light on primary ways in which human resource management practices may be used to embed support for sustainability initiatives throughout the organization.     

Creating whole life value proxemics in construction projects

Whole life value is introduced as a concept for evaluating construction projects, which extends beyond the more typical use of optimized (equilibrium) utility preferences. By linking value and sustainability the concept allows for the consideration of ‘price‐less’ evaluations within the construction project process. As an industry exposed perhaps more than any other to issues of public space and environmental impact, construction is being driven towards the use of complex, multi‐issue consultations with stakeholders within which whole life value can operate as a contextual limit. By investigating traditional cost–benefit analysis routes, and then what are called ‘aspects of sustainability’, an argument is advanced for these consultations to be ongoing rather than one‐off events. As such, they are to concern themselves with the framework of relationships (proxemics) by which distinct evaluations might be articulated and understood through the project process, rather than just how one arrives at a consensus of opinion. It is argued that the concept of value can only be applied fully to any project if consideration has been given to the ambience and context of stakeholder relations and attitudes as opposed to just the prevailing opinions. The virtue of such stakeholder involvement lies not in its ‘rubber stamping’ a separate process of activity, but in ensuring value is realized across asset life through a focus on attaining and sustaining conditions for the reflective articulation of need. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. and ERP Environment     

Does Executive Sponsorship Matter for Realizing Project Management Value?

Executive sponsorship is critical to project success; however, the impact of the sponsorship role on project management value and sustainability is not known. Using correlation analysis we examine survey responses from 91 U.S. executives. Formalizing and providing training on the sponsorship role and responsibilities are both significantly related to senior management's perception of the sustainability of project management value. Unexpectedly, no significant relationship exists between the prevalence of the sponsorship role and project management value outcomes. These results extend our understanding of the importance of the sponsorship role and provide practical guidance for those seeking to improve the sustainability of project management value.     

Reflexive Evaluation of an Academic–Industry Research Collaboration: Can Mode 2 Management Research be Achieved?

We present a reflexive retrospective account of a UK government research council funded project deploying knowledge management software to support environmental sustainability in the construction industry. This project was set up in a form typical of a Mode 2 research programme involving several academic institutions and industrial partners, and aspiring to fulfil the Mode 2 criteria seen as transdisciplinarity and business relevance. The multidisciplinary nature is analysed through retrospectively reflecting upon the research process and activities we carried out, and is found to be problematic. No real consensus was reached between the partners on the ‘context of application’. Difficulties between industry and academia, within industry and within academia led to diverging agendas and different alignments for participants. The context of application does not (pre‐)exist independently of institutional influences, and in itself cannot drive transdisciplinarity since it is subject to competing claims and negotiations. There were unresolved tensions in terms of private vs. public construction companies and their expectations of ICT‐based knowledge management, and in terms of the sustainable construction agenda. This post hoc reflexive account, enables us to critique our own roles in having developed a managerial technology for technically sophisticated and powerful private industrial actors to the detriment of public sector construction partners, having bypassed sustainability issues, and not reached transdisciplinarity. We argue that this is due to institutional pressures and instrumentalization from academia, industry and government and a restricted notion of business relevance. There exists a politically motivated tendency to oppose Mode 1 academic research to practitioner‐oriented Mode 2 approaches to management research. We argue that valuing the links between co‐existing Mode 1 and 2 research activities would support a more genuine and fuller exploration of the context of application.     

Sustainability assessment of food chain logistics

Food chain logistics plays an important role in the sustainability performance of the food sector. Therefore, project SCALE (Step Change in Agri-food Logistics Ecosystems) started as a collaborative international project, aiming for tools and frameworks for the food sector to make a step change in operational practices. A sustainability framework is introduced to propose a structured and rational method for assessing sustainability. Next, we empirically apply the framework, based upon explorative web-based research and semi-structured interviews with the best practice players in the field in the Netherlands, the UK and France. Findings provide clear insights into the current state of the art regarding the use of sustainability performance indicators, companies’ sustainability strategies, supply chain redesign strategies currently applied in practice and experienced barriers to sustainability improvement. Overall, logistics service providers seem to have a wait-and-see attitude towards sustainability where food companies are more proactive following market demands for more sustainable products.     

Transition towards and of sustainability—Understanding sustainability as performative

Our purpose is to explore the concept of “sustainability” when understood from a performative perspective, i.e. as a concept that is filled with meaning across time. Drawing on a 10 year-long study of the digital footprint of Stockholm Royal Seaport, claimed to be northern Europe's largest sustainable urban development district, we show that “sustainability” emerged as the project became associated with particular places, projects, histories, and technologies. This means that “sustainability” was local in that it was situated in the particular spatial context of the project; temporal in that it was situated in a particular time; and political in that it expressed particular values and perspectives. The study contributes to explaining why “sustainability” remains—and always will remain—a contested concept, which is why sustainability transitions are complex. Consequently, we suggest that the transition towards sustainability always involves the transition of sustainability, something that needs to be acknowledged in order for a transition to actually become sustainable.