Pernilla Gluch
Pernilla Gluch is Professor and Head of Division at the Division of Service Management and Logistics at Chalmers. Her research departs from industrial change processes driven by increased demands on sustainability, within foremost the project based setting AEC industry (Architecture, Engineering and Construction). Most of her studies have applied a ‘practice lens’ perspective. The practice lens perspective helps understanding how interaction between actors, structures and artifacts forms institutional practices, identities and professional roles in a specific organizational setting.
With an application in project based organisations Pernilla's research can, although closely interrelated, be divided into three main areas:
1) professionalization and professional expertise in project based organisations. This involves creating an understanding of the reciprocal dynamics between processes of institutionalization and processes of professionalization.
2) knowledge sharing, communication and social interaction in project based organisations. This has involved theory building on situated practice, roles and positioning of human mediators and how tools and artifacts, for example standardized management systems and work procedures, are used to mediate information and knowledge in organizations.
3) sustainability and environmental management practices. This involves research that explores social practices and organisational features of projects and their relation to sustainability and environmental management.
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Taking lead for sustainability: Environmental managers as institutional entrepreneurs
Beyond Policies and Social Washing: How Social Procurement Unfolds in Practice
Taking lead for sustainability: Environmental managers as institutional entrepreneurs
How sustainability professionals navigate in the sea of sustainability
Populating the social realm: New roles arising from social procurement
Orchestrating multi-actor collaborative innovation across organizational boundaries
Social procurement in the real world: How employment requirements unfold in construction projects
Challenging construction project management institutions: the role and agency of BIM actors
Professional development of the BIM actor role
How to attract knowledge workers: Company size, gender, age and education as moderators
FROM TOOL-MAKING TO TOOL-USING - AND BACK: RATIONALES FOR ADOPTION AND USE OF LCC
Utmaningar för hållbar förnyelse: En studie av miljonprogramsområdet Siriusgatan
Examining New Professional Actors Related to Employment Requirements
Utmaningar vid planering av hållbar bostadsförnyelse: En studie av ett miljonprogramsområde
The role of objects for institutional work in energy efficient renovation
Developing a business model for sustainable renovation of public housing
Objects in processes of change and development of new practices: an institutional work perspective
The organizational nexus of changing management practices for sustainable renovation
Conceptualizing environmental expertise through the lens of institutional work
Acceptance and Use of LCC as a Decision Support Tool for Renovation Investments
The role of VDC professionals in the construction industry
Using actor-network theory to understand knowledge sharing in an architecture firm
Charting corporate greening: environmental management trends in Sweden
Knowledge sharing and learning across community boundaries in an arena for energy efficient building
The meaning of time in a cross-disciplinary arena project
Future use of life-cycle assessment in civil engineering
Managerial competencies of female and male managers in the Swedish construction industry
Corporate environmental strategies and performance: A longitudinal study
The value of communicative skills for developing an energy strategy
Implementation of strategies: A case study of a municipality owned housing company
What tensions obstruct an alignment between project and environmental management practices?
Byggsektorns miljöarbete kan skapa nya affärer
Specialist sprider kunskap och erfarenheter i projekt
Giving an energy target sense: focus on an expert and discursive competences
Incorporating change: two cases about learning among organizations
Twelve years of environmental work in the Swedish construction industry
Standardizing knowledge: A dialectic view on architectural knowledge and its managers
Den miljöansvariges roll i projektbaserade organisationer
Managing knowledge in platforms: boundary objects and stocks and flows of knowledge
Environmental attitudes, management and performance
Creativity and Its Discontents: Professional Ideology and Creativity in Architect Work
Developments in partnering models. Relationship duration and knowledge integration.
Hållbart byggande och projektbaserad organisering - en studie av organisatoriska flaskhalsar
An absoptive capacity model for green innovation and performance in the construction industry
Aligning the practices of the permanent with those of the temporary
Visual representations and knowledge-intensive work: the case of architect work
Interactional perspective on environmental communication in construction projects
Narrating knowledge: Storytelling and knowledge sharing in a medium-sized construction company
What encourage clients and contractors to take common action on sustainability issues?
Miljöbarometern för bygg- och fastighetssektorn 2006 - en kartläggning av sektorns miljöarbete
Bygg- och fastighetssektorn behöver affärsmässiga drivkrafter i miljöarbetet
The communicative role of environmental professionals in construction: Nag or anchor?
What makes it slow? A questionnaire survey of environmental attitudes, management and performance
Effektivare miljöinformation i byggprojekt - illustrationer från ett tunnelprojekt
How do trade media influence building practice
Social practices, structure and agency: Effects on environmental management in construction projects
Dags för rannsakan, byggbranschen!
"It's about time" - for Environmental Management to team up with Project Management
Building Green - Perspectives on Environmental Mangagement in Construction
The Image of Greening as Communicated by Trade Magazines
Communicating Environmental Information in Construction Projects - a case study
How the corporate environmental policy is percieved in a large construction company
Implementation and use of a project specific environmental program - a case study
Miljöbarometern för byggsektorn 2002
Communicating Sustainable Building: The Image Conveyed by Media
Discursive features of sustainable building in media
Communicating Sustainable Building: The Image Conveyed in Media
Medias bild av "hållbart byggande"
Life Cycle Costing (LCC) - a managerial environmental accounting tool for building projects?
Evaluation of methods for studying environmental errors in building and civil engineering projects
Miljöfelkostnader - en diskussion kring begreppet
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Showing 8 research projects
Managning strategic change in public facilties management organizations
Professionalization and institutional change: a study of an emerging sustainability profession
BIM coordinator’s role and function as knowledge leader in construction processes
Procurement for Sustainable Innovation in the Built Environment
Facing the energy challenge: Innovative business models for renovation of buildings