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A Model for Exploring Legitimization Strategies Used in Architectural Design Competitions
(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2021) Aslan, Mina; Kale, Serdar
Studying the legitimacy of strategic decision has become one of the topical research areas in management due to the increasing demand for ensuring social acceptability and reliability of organizational decisions. Recently, studies dealing with the built environment have also started to examine legitimacy concerns in detail. This thesis aims to explore the concept of legitimacy in the field of built environment by focusing on architectural practice. The main reason to focus on architectural practice is the controversial approaches that prevail about the legitimacy of architectural actions and decisions. A conceptual model is proposed based on an in-depth analysis of the concepts of legitimacy and strategic decision-making in the context of architectural practice. The proposed conceptual model is validated by analyzing thirty-two architectural design competitions. Pragmatic, moral and cognitive legitimacy strategies are analyzed at different phases of competitions that are guidelines, questions, project and jury reports. Research findings, based on the analysis of competition transcripts through Histogram and K-means clustering methods, provide valuable information to understand the legitimacy strategies of different stakeholders better. The research findings also guide stakeholders to improve their justifications for achieving more reliable, valid and socially accepted design decisions. The proposed research methodology constitutes an effective decision analysis approach to evaluate the legitimacy strategies in the built environment.
A Model for Evaluating the Absorptive Capacity of Architectural Design Teams
(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2015) Ülkeryıldız, Evren; Kale, Serdar
The primary challenge facing social actors (i.e., individuals, groups and firms) operating in the Architectural Construction and Engineering (AEC) industry has been delivering value to their stakeholders. The research presented herein addresses this primary challenge in the context of the architectural design teams. It develops a conceptual framework that builds on the concept of absorptive capacity, value theory and activity based theory. The conceptual framework proposes that the absorptive capacity of architectural design teams has significant influence on project outcomes. It also proposes that power relationships, knowledge search mechanisms and social integration mechanisms and of architectural design teams significantly influence their absorptive capacity. These research propositions were empirically tested by a survey of 121 architects operating in Turkey. Research findings based on multiple regression analysis provided mixed support to the research propositions. Research findings suggest that three out of four dimensions of absorptive capacity (i.e., acquisition, transformation and exploitation) have significant impact on project value outcomes but not assimilation. Research findings also suggest that power relationships (i.e., support for innovative/novel design, resource supply and team autonomy), social integration mechanisms (i.e., relationship, structural and cognitive dimensions) and knowledge search mechanisms (i.e., search breadth and depth) have varying degrees of influence on the four dimensions of absorptive capacity.

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