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The use of freelisting to elicit stakeholder understanding of the benefits sought from healthcare buildings
journal contribution
posted on 2012-04-13, 12:50 authored by Derek ThomsonDerek Thomson, Ammar P.F. Kaka, Laura Pronk, Chaham AlalouchElicitation and synthesis of the collective understanding of a cultural domain held by a group of
stakeholders is challenging. This problem typifies the pre-project activity from which a coherent
understanding of the benefits sought from infrastructure investment must emerge to inform the
business case rationale. The anthropological freelisting method is evaluated as a solution by
determining its ability to be operationalised in a practical form for project application. Using data
from the stakeholders of a large NHS Scotland building project, the use of multidimensional
scaling for data analysis is compared with participatory pilesorting to determine which freelisting
protocol balances insight with practicality. Neither approach is found to offer an ideal method of
characterising sought benefits. The social construction of pilesorting promotes reliability while
the analytical rigour of multidimensional scaling remains attractive to auditors. Their distinct
insights suggests that both approaches should be combined in future and used alongside further
post-elicitation devices from anthropology such as cultural consensus modelling or structured
conceptualisation.
History
School
- Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Citation
THOMSON, D.S. ... et al., 2012. The use of freelisting to elicit stakeholder understanding of the benefits sought from healthcare buildings. Construction Management and Economics, 30(4), pp. 309–323.Publisher
© Taylor and FrancisVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publication date
2012Notes
This article was published in the journal Construction Management and Economics [© Taylor and Francis] and the definitive version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01446193.2012.658824ISSN
0144-6193;1466-433XPublisher version
Language
- en