Understanding Impacts of Social Network Interventions on Engineering Project Outcomes

了解社交网络干预对工程项目成果的影响

• 批准号: 1825678
• 负责人: Sinem Mollaoglu
• 金额: $ 41.78万
• 依托单位: Michigan State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-09-01 至 2025-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1825678&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Understanding; Impacts; Social; Network; Interventions

This project will conduct fundamental research to understand how team interactions across disciplines and organizations in complex engineering projects impact project outcomes by studying teams on large engineering projects. Engineering project performance depends on both the performance of individuals and the networks through which knowledge flows between team members. These networks impact information access and the ability of team members to coordinate as they work towards common goals. Establishing efficient knowledge transfer networks is a challenge in engineering project teams, but there is limited evidence about specific impacts of network structure and dynamics on project outcomes. Using information about the distribution of expertise in a project network at any given time, this study will evaluate specific network interventions for their potential to improve knowledge transfer-related behavior in individuals or groups and whether this has a positive impact on project outcomes. The study will focus on construction projects for LEED-certified buildings, but the results will be relevant to large systems engineering projects in many industries, including manufacturing, civil infrastructure, aerospace, and defense. Outcomes will include extensive observational data of the projects, statistical analyses of the data, and an engineering solution to systematically improve coordination in project teams and enhance project outcomes. The research goal is to advance understanding of how manipulating interactions across disciplinary boundaries in inter-organizational engineering project teams can improve individual, sub-group, and project performance. The study will adopt a longitudinal, comparative research design with two architecture, engineering, and construction project teams, one of which will be treated with social network interventions. The research team will pursue an exploratory approach to examine network characteristics and collaboration mediums that can lead to improved individual and team performance and the links between team performance and project outcomes. A quantitative approach will be followed to test the impact of interventions on individual and sub-group performance. The multiple cycles of interventions will inform how engineering project teams react to network interventions at the individual and sub-group levels to improve project performance.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该项目将进行基础研究，通过研究大型工程项目的团队，了解复杂工程项目中跨学科和组织的团队互动如何影响项目成果。工程项目的绩效取决于个人的绩效和团队成员之间知识流动的网络。这些网络影响着信息的获取和团队成员为实现共同目标而进行协调的能力。建立有效的知识转移网络是一个挑战，在工程项目团队，但有有限的证据网络结构和动态的项目成果的具体影响。利用任何特定时间项目网络中专业知识分布的信息，本研究将评估特定网络干预措施对改善个人或群体知识转移相关行为的潜力，以及这是否对项目成果产生积极影响。该研究将重点关注LEED认证建筑的建设项目，但其结果将与许多行业的大型系统工程项目相关，包括制造业，民用基础设施，航空航天和国防。成果将包括项目的广泛观测数据、数据的统计分析和工程解决方案，以系统地改善项目团队的协调并提高项目成果。 本研究的目标是促进了解如何操纵跨学科的跨组织工程项目团队的边界的相互作用，可以提高个人，子组和项目绩效。该研究将采用纵向比较研究设计，包括两个建筑、工程和施工项目团队，其中一个团队将接受社会网络干预。研究团队将采取探索性的方法来研究网络特征和协作媒介，这些特征和媒介可以提高个人和团队的绩效，以及团队绩效和项目成果之间的联系。将采用定量方法来测试干预措施对个人和分组绩效的影响。多个周期的干预将告知工程项目团队如何在个人和子组层面对网络干预做出反应，以提高项目绩效。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

Emergence and Evolution of Network Structures in Complex Interorganizational Project Teams

• DOI: 10.1061/(asce)me.1943-5479.0000951
• 发表时间: 2021-09
• 期刊: Journal of Management in Engineering
• 影响因子: 7.4
• 作者: A. Garcia;Sinem Mollaoglu;K. Frank;Meltem Duva;Dong Zhao

Knowledge Exchanges in Complex Project Networks: Influence Model

复杂项目网络中的知识交流：影响力模型

• DOI: 10.1061/9780784483978.107
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Construction Research Congress 2022
• 作者: Duva, Meltem;Zhao, Dong;Mollaoglu, Sinem;Frank, Kenneth A.
• 通讯作者: Frank, Kenneth A.

Network Topologies and Team Performance: A Comparative Study of AEC Projects

网络拓扑和团队绩效：AEC 项目的比较研究

• DOI: 10.1061/9780784483978.108
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Construction Research Congress 2022
• 作者: Duva, Meltem;Mollaoglu, Sinem;Zhao, Dong;Frank, Kenneth A.
• 通讯作者: Frank, Kenneth A.

Integrative Collaboration in Fragmented Project Organizations: Network Perspective

分散的项目组织中的整合协作：网络视角

• DOI: 10.1061/(asce)co.1943-7862.0002149
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
• 影响因子: 5.1
• 作者: Zhao, Dong;Duva, Meltem;Mollaoglu, Sinem;Frank, Kenneth;Garcia, Angelo;Tait, Jordan
• 通讯作者: Tait, Jordan

Expertise Flows and Network Structures in AEC Project Teams

AEC 项目团队中的专业知识流和网络结构

• DOI: 10.1061/9780784482889.011
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: Proceedings of Construction Research Congress 2020
• 作者: Garcia, Angelo Joseph;Duva, Meltem;Mollaoglu, Sinem;Zhao, Dong;Frank, Kenneth A.;Benitez, Jackeline
• 通讯作者: Benitez, Jackeline