TY  - CONF
TI  - Developing Production Theory: What Issues Need To Be Taken Into Consideration?
C1  - San Diego, California, USA
C3  - 20th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction
PY  - 2012
AU  - Rooke, John
AU  - Koskela, Lauri
AU  - Howell, Greg
AU  - Kagioglou, Mike
AD  - Research Fellow, HaCIRIC, School of the Built Environment, The University of Salford, Greater Manchester, UK, Phone +44 (0)161 295 6344, j.rooke@salford.ac.uk
AD  - Professor, School of the Built Environment, 4th Floor, Maxwell Building, , The University of Salford, Salford M5 4WT, UK, Phone +44 (0)1612956378, L.J.Koskela@salford.ac.uk
AD  - Executive Director, Lean Construction Institute, Box 1003, Ketchum, ID 83340, Phone +1  208/726-9989, ghowell@leanconstruction.org
AD  - Professor, HaCIRIC, Head of School, School of the Built Environment, The University of Salford,  Greater Manchester, UK, Phone +44 (0)161 295 3855, m.kagioglou@salford.ac.uk 
ED  - Tommelein, Iris D.
ED  - Pasquire, Chrisitne L.
AB  - The aim of this paper is to establish key issues that a theory of production should address, to conceptualize these issues and to sketch an account of their interaction. Aristotle's analyses of knowledge and causality are used, in conjunction with Wittgenstein's concept of language games, to integrate the insights of transformationflow- value (TFV) theory and the language action perspective (LAP) within a framework derived from Liker (2004). Building on Liker, we identify four language games that are necessary for production: 
1. drawing on scientific knowledge to determine the best physical arrangements for the achievement of a pre-given value; 
2. two value discourses which determine 
(a) the target value for (1) and 
(b) the human relations which will enable the achievement of (1) - Liker's ‘long term philosophy’ and ‘developing people and organization’, plus the Language Action Perspective; 
3. a discourse of learning and knowledge with the aim of continual improvement. 
Four of the key concepts used in these games are identified (flow; work, knowledge and commitment) and related to the functions of management. Finally, an overall theoretical framework is proposed.
KW  - Production Theory; Lean Theory; Lean Construction; Value; TFV Theory; Language Action Perspective
PB  - 
T2  - 20th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction
DA  - 2012/07/18
CY  - San Diego, California, USA
L1  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/829/pdf
L2  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/829
N1  - Export Date: 18 April 2024
DB  - IGLC.net
DP  - IGLC
LA  - English
ER  -