dc.contributor.author	Gore, Justin	en
dc.contributor.committeechair	McCoy, Andrew P.	en
dc.contributor.committeemember	Fiori, Christine M.	en
dc.contributor.committeemember	Pearce, Annie R.	en
dc.contributor.department	Building Construction	en
dc.date.accessioned	2014-03-14T20:36:41Z	en
dc.date.adate	2010-06-02	en
dc.date.available	2014-03-14T20:36:41Z	en
dc.date.issued	2010-05-05	en
dc.date.rdate	2010-06-02	en
dc.date.sdate	2010-05-13	en
dc.description.abstract	Innovation is a necessary part of construction business operations as a means to remain competitive in a dynamic environment, and yet, as a whole the construction industry continues to be labeled as laggard. Innovation and the processes surrounding innovation involve layers of complexity and are therefore often misunderstood. In order for industry stakeholders to better derive benefits from the innovation process, they must first understand the drivers of innovation within their own organizations, including relationships to other organizations and actions of contributing individuals. Utilizing a flexible design methodology of literature review, a modified Delphi technique and a survey instrument, this work aims to develop and present an initial validation of a framework of individual and organizational change by which such characteristics of innovativeness can be categorized. As a basis of this work, categories of innovativeness are those defined by Rogers (2003), and then expanded by parameters of innovativeness extracted from scholarly literature. The overarching goal of this research endeavor is to better understand the behavior of individual and organizational change through specific categories of innovativeness that can be used to build a tangible set of tools for use in the construction industry. However, ultimate validation and translation will be the effort of future work. In gaining innovativeness knowledge, industry stakeholders will understand their own strengths and weaknesses, better arming them with the tools to initiate and succeed at organizational change.	en
dc.description.degree	Master of Science	en
dc.identifier.other	etd-05132010-233447	en
dc.identifier.sourceurl	http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05132010-233447/	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10919/32720	en
dc.publisher	Virginia Tech	en
dc.relation.haspart	Gore_JE_T_2010_IRB_ammendment_3_approval.pdf	en
dc.relation.haspart	Gore_JE_T_2010.pdf	en
dc.relation.haspart	Gore_JE_T_2010_IRB_ammendment_1_approval.pdf	en
dc.relation.haspart	Gore_JE_T_2010_IRB_ammendment_2_approval.pdf	en
dc.relation.haspart	Gore_JE_T_2010_IRB_approval.pdf	en
dc.rights	In Copyright	en
dc.rights.uri	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/	en
dc.subject	Innovation	en
dc.subject	Innovativeness	en
dc.subject	Construction	en
dc.subject	Change	en
dc.title	Towards Defining Categories of Innovativeness for the Construction Industry	en
dc.type	Thesis	en
thesis.degree.discipline	Building Construction	en
thesis.degree.grantor	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	en
thesis.degree.level	masters	en
thesis.degree.name	Master of Science	en

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