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Identifying Key Characteristics of Distributed Design and Engineering Work Through Exploratory Research

Today’s infrastructure and building projects implicate a quite complex set of business circumstances and opportunities to exploit. On the one hand, the globalization of infrastructure and building projects is allowing firms to operate subsidiary offices around the world. On the other, new collaboration technologies allow the possibility of teaming project participants virtually to distribute work. These advances are rapidly changing our working environments, allowing companies to geographically distribute work tasks. Companies in the design and engineering sector can also benefit from advantages of the information age by decomposing work tasks and their distributing them to diverse locations for rapid and efficient execution. This exploratory research uses a series of qualitative case studies to investigate key characteristics of effective worksharing practices in project-based global design and engineering companies. In doing so, it is developing a coding structure according to which it theoretically extracts factors that appear to be important in achieving effective international worksharing within design and engineering companies. The goal of this approach is to better understand the process of work distribution in international design and engineering companies and to extend existing knowledge with an empirical insight to this problem.

worksharing; global projects; distributed engineering; exploratory research; critical factors

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