Managing Complexities, Decisions and Actions in the Building Process
Center for Management Studies of the Building Process / Copenhagen Business School
5-7 May 2010

CALL FOR PAPERS AND CONTRIBUTIONS
The building process, from start to finish, is an obscure blend of dualities and supplements. For example, the process seems to combine abstract visions and physical realities, a sense of aesthetics and economic constraints, multiple pasts and multiple futures, local conditions and general influences. The building process is often described as complex, uncertain and ambiguous. Therefore it is not surprising that building an understanding of the building process requires a theorization sensitive to multiplicity, volatility and transience. How may this provide grounds for a generalized or shared approach?

The conference intends to provide a celebratory ground for sharing results of research projects that have the building process, or parts thereof, as their empirical focus. The conference is also an occasion for discussing what we may strive to know – and what cannot be illuminated through research studies and analysis.

CONFERENCE THEMES
The conference is organized around a number of themes, each forming a conference within the conference.

Keynote speakers
Professor Richard Boland Jr., Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University

Professor Jan Mouritsen, Department of Operations Management, Copenhagen Business School

General conference track
Conveners: Lise Justesen, Kristian Kreiner, Jan Mouritsen

We invite papers that lie within the general conference theme outlined above. For inspiration, examples of specific topics that could be addressed are listed below. Other topics are also welcome.

•Strategizing and Performance in Construction
•Learning from Experience in Construction
•Successes in Construction. The Construction of Success
•Safety Constructions
•Interplays between Projects and Firms in the Building Process
•Sustainable Construction
•Markets and Business Cycles

CONFERENCE FORMAT
The conference will take place in Copenhagen, commencing late afternoon May 5 2010 and closing late afternoon May 7 2010. The program will cover parallel paper sessions, plenary addresses, and plenary discussions. In form, the conference will be academic, and in style of interaction, it will be scholarly.

DEADLINES
Deadline for submission of extended abstracts (5-7 pages): December 15, 2009
Acceptance of papers: February 1, 2010
Deadline for final papers: April 20, 2010

PRICE
340 €

PRE-REGISTER / ABSTRACT SUBMISSION
Pre-register for the conference

CONTACT
For more information, or for suggesting additional conference themes, please contact:
Jan Mouritsen, CBS: jm.om@cbs.dk
Kristian Kreiner, CBS: kk.ioa@cbs.dk
Maj Britt Aronstein, CBS: ma.ioa@cbs.dk