Prof Jennifer Whyte
Professor in Innovation and Design
School of Construction Management and Engineering
University of Reading, UK
Email address: J.Whyte [at] reading.ac.uk
Selected Refereed Journal Articles
Whyte, J. (2011) Managing digital coordination of design: emerging hybrid practices in an institutionalized project setting, Engineering Project Organization Journal, Vol. 1, Issue 3, pp. 159–168.
Whyte, J. and Sexton, M. (2011) Motivations for innovation in the built environment: new directions for research, Building Research and Information, Vol. 39, Issue 5, pp. 473-482.
Whyte, J. and Lobo, S. (2010) Coordination and control in project-based work: digital objects and infrastructures for delivery, Construction Management and Economics, Vol. 28, Issue 6, 557-567.
Whyte, J. (2010) Taking time to understand: articulating relationships between technologies and organizations, Research in the Sociology of Organizations, special issue ‘Technology and Organization: Essays in Honour of Joan Woodward’, Volume 29, pp. 217-236.
Whyte, J. and Cardellino, P. (2010) Learning by design: Visual practices and organizational transformation, Design Issues, Vol. 26, No. 2, pp. 59-69.
Harty, C. and Whyte, J. (2010) Emerging hybrid practices in construction design work: the role of mixed media, Construction Engineering and Management, Vol. 136, No. 4, pp. 468-476.
Ewenstein, B. and Whyte, J. (2009) Knowledge practices in design: The role of visual representations as 'epistemic objects', Organization Studies, Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 7-30. [pdf of submitted version 1.5Mb]
German translation: Wissenspraktiken im Design: Die Rolle visueller Repräsentationen als „epistemische Objekte“ re-published in 2010 by German Society for Design Theory and Research Conference (DGTF) with permission.
Whyte, J., Ewenstein, B. Hales, M. and Tidd, J. (2008) Visualizing knowledge in project-based work, Long Range Planning, Vol. 41, No. 1, pp.74-92. [pdf of submitted version 1.0Mb]
Ewenstein, B. and Whyte, J. (2007) Beyond words: aesthetic knowledge and knowing in design, Organization Studies, Vol. 28, No. 5, pp. 689-708. [pdf of submitted version 2Mb]
Whyte, J.K., Ewenstein, B. Hales, M. and Tidd, J. (2007) Visual practices and the objects used in design, Building Research and Information, Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 18-27.
Ewenstein, B. and J. K. Whyte (2007) Picture this: visual representations as 'artifacts of knowing', Building Research and Information, Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 81-89.
Steen, J., Coopmans, C. and Whyte, J. (2006) SO!APBOX: Structure and agency? Foundation of strategic organization, Strategic Organization, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 303-312.
Soutter, J.K. and Whyte, J.K. (2005) Making sense of it all: implementing an emerging KM technology within the organization, International Journal of Information Technology and Management, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 308-320.
Gann, D.M., Salter, A.J. and Whyte, J.K. (2003) The Design Quality Indicator as a tool for thinking, Building Research and Information, Vol. 31, No. 5, pp. 318-333.
Whyte, J.K. and Gann, D.M. (2003) Design Quality Indicators: work in progress, Building Research and Information, Vol. 31, No. 5, pp. 387-398.
Whyte, J.K. (2003) Innovation and users: virtual reality in the construction sector, Construction Management and Economics, Vol. 21, No. 6, pp. 565-572.
Whyte, J.K., Davies, A., Salter, A.J. and Gann, D.M. (2003) Designing to compete: lessons from Millennium Product winners, Design Studies, Vol. 24, No 5, pp. 395-409.
Whyte, J.K. Bouchlaghem, N. and Thorpe, A. (2002) IT implementation and the construction organisation, Engineering Construction and Architectural Management, Vol. 9, No. 5-6, pp. 371-379.
Whyte, J.K. and Bouchlaghem, N. (2002) Implementation of VR systems, a comparative study between the early adoption of CAD and the current uptake of VR, Construction Innovation, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 3-13.
Anumba, C.J., Bouchlaghem, N.M. Whyte, J.K. and Duke, A. (2000) Perspectives on a shared construction project model, International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 283-313.
Whyte, J.K., Bouchlaghem, N., Thorpe, A., and McCaffer, R. (2000) From CAD to virtual reality: modelling approaches, data exchange and interactive 3D building design tools, Automation in Construction, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 43-55.
Book Chapters
Whyte, J. and Levitt, R. (2011) Information management and the management of projects. In: Morris, P. W. G., Pinto, J. K. and Söderlund, J. (eds.) The Oxford handbook of project management. Oxford University Press, UK, pp. 365-388. ISBN 9780199563142
Tombesi, P. and Whyte, J. (2011) Challenges of design management in construction. In: Cooper , R., Junginger, S. and Lockwood, T. (eds.) The handbook of design management. Berg, London, UK. ISBN 9781847884886
Whyte, J.K., Ewenstein, B.E., Hales,
M. and Tidd, J. (2008) ‘Managing Knowledge Representation in Design’ in
Scarbrough, H. (ed) The
Evolution of Business Knowledge
, Oxford University Press.
Whyte, J.K., Gann, D.M. and Salter, A.
(2003) ‘Building Indicators of Design Quality’ in Macmillan, S. (ed.) Designing
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, Spon.
Edited Special Issues
Whyte, J. and Ewenstein, B. (2007) Editorial: Visual practices and the built environment, Building Research and Information, Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 3-5.
Gann, D.M. and Whyte, J. (2003) Editorial: Design Quality, its measurement and management in the built environment, Building Research and Information, Vol. 31, No. 5, pp. 314-317.
Book
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, Architectural Press (ISBN 0 7506 5372 8)
2011 conference papers
Lindkvist, C., Hassan Ibrahim, N. and Whyte, J. (2011) Disjointed memory: forgetting within and across firms. In: "Organizational Memory" Seventeenth Organization Science Winter Conference (OSWC XVII), 10-13 Feb 2011, Steamboat Springs, Colorado, USA.
Whyte, J. and Tryggestad , K. (2011) The visual in strategy practices: management, design and changing technologies of presentation. In: 2nd Workshop on Imagining Business, 19-20 May 2011, Segovia, Spain.
2010 conference papers
Whyte, J. and Lobo, S. (2010) Coordination and control: Digital objects as infrastructure in organizational settings, Academy of Management, Montreal, Canada, August 6-10th.
Whyte, J. (2010) Cultures of coordination and control: Integrated software solutions and new forms of organizing, European Group for Organization Studies (EGOS), Lisbon, Portugal, July 1st-3rd.
Whyte, J. (2010) Digital infrastructure, management practices and the design organization, W065 Organisation and Management of Construction, CIB World Congress 2010, May 10th - 13th, The Lowry, Salford Quays, United Kingdom.
Whyte, J. and Lobo, S. (2010) Digital objects and management practices on engineering design projects, Construction Matters, May 5th - 7th, Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, Denmark.