Discussion: The implications of methodological uniformity
The construction management research community has clearly grown and developed
since the methodological debates of the mid-1990s. This is reflected in the growth of
the number of peer-reviewed journals and the numbers of papers published relating
to the practice of construction management. Much of this work could be considered
social science or sociological research, which is aimed at understanding the social
structure and patterns of interaction between those working within, and affected by,
the built environment and the agencies and institutions which structure it). Much of this
work is also founded on the ‘co-production’ of knowledge. In other words, researchers
use the real-world context of the industry as sites for developing research questions,
and for conducting empirical work to examine them (Harty and Leiringer, 2007). It
could be reasonably expected that their methodological positions and the methods
adopted may have broadened and diversified to reflect the multiple traditions from