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Front-end value co-creation in housing development projects
KTH, School of Architecture and the Built Environment (ABE), Real Estate and Construction Management, Construction and Facilities Management.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6934-4731
KTH, School of Architecture and the Built Environment (ABE), Real Estate and Construction Management, Construction and Facilities Management.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5744-9445
KTH, School of Architecture and the Built Environment (ABE), Real Estate and Construction Management, Construction and Facilities Management.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1746-2637
2021 (English)In: Construction Management and Economics, ISSN 0144-6193, E-ISSN 1466-433X, Vol. 39, no 3, p. 245-260Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

As a result of local governance, municipalities and housing developers work together to define housing development projects and to co-create value propositions. The purpose of this study is to explore how value propositions are co-created during the front-end of housing development projects and how this affects housing developers’ ability to drive change and innovation. The value co-creation process is explored through interviews, documents and observations in a case study of an urban development programme in Sweden. The findings illustrate how emerging conflicts and the process of resolving them are central drivers for value co-creation between these actors. However, conflicts that are not managed and resolved constructively can lead to the co-destruction of value. In this study we illustrate how value co-creation processes that precede procurement limit the flexibility of housing developers and determine the scope for value that can be realised.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Informa UK Limited , 2021. Vol. 39, no 3, p. 245-260
Keywords [en]
Value co-creation/co-destruction, front-end, value propositions, conflict management, housing developers, municipalities
National Category
Construction Management
Research subject
Real Estate and Construction Management
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-287307DOI: 10.1080/01446193.2020.1851037ISI: 000596303200001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85097132940OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-287307DiVA, id: diva2:1507185
Funder
Swedish Research Council Formas, 2016-20103
Note

QC 20201208

Available from: 2020-12-07 Created: 2020-12-07 Last updated: 2023-03-02Bibliographically approved
In thesis
1. Public Land Development for Sustainability-Profiled Districts: A value co-creation perspective
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Public Land Development for Sustainability-Profiled Districts: A value co-creation perspective
2022 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

Swedish municipalities are developing sustainability-profiled districts incollaboration with private actors to achieve their public sustainability objectives.These districts are comparable to developments found in many other Europeancountries and the wider world. They are intended to model sustainable urbandevelopment and act as testbeds for collaborative innovation and urbanexperimentation. To initiate and govern the districts, Swedish municipalities areusing public land development, which provides them with more options to influencehousing development and increases their leverage during land use planning. It alsoforms exchange relationships between the municipalities and housing developers.Although previously acknowledged, there is a lack of research investigating thispractice in-depth. In the Swedish context, land ownership has a substantial influenceon the structure of the development process and collaboration betweenmunicipalities and housing developers, which are considered two key actors fordriving sustainable urban development. In sustainability-profiled districtdevelopments, these public and private actors collaborate during the municipal landallocation process, an important part of the public land development process, inorder to develop and implement new sustainable solutions and practices. Thiscollaboration during the land allocation process is investigated in the dissertation.

The purpose of the dissertation is to increase the understanding of municipal landallocation processes in sustainability-profiled district developments by applying acollaborative perspective to public-private exchange. Municipal land allocations insustainability-profiled districts are first analysed and interpreted as public-privatevalue co-creation processes specifically intended to generate sustainable innovation.This is complemented with theories on conflict management, project relationships,and public value capture. The utility of using municipal land allocations for framingpublic-private collaborative innovation is then evaluated using value co-creationtheory. A single and multiple case study approach was employed to investigate indepthmunicipal land allocation processes in sustainability-profiled districts at thedistrict- and building project-level. Focusing on the perspectives of municipalitiesand housing developers, interviews and documents were used to reveal complexprocessual and relational dynamics mired in conflicting value creation objectives.The research is focused on sustainability-profiled district developments in Swedento gain an in-depth understanding of the intricacies and influences of this nationalcontext. The findings are then discussed in relation to public land developmentpractices in other European countries.

The results reveal that the possibilities for municipalities to co-create public valueusing public land development are ultimately determined by housing developers’ ability to implement municipal sustainability requirements and co-create privateproject value. These municipal sustainability requirements are included in landallocation agreements and are negotiable throughout the rest of the land allocationprocess. Thus, the potential for public value creation is determined by the ability ofmunicipalities and developers to co-design sustainability requirements forimplementation during the land allocation process, in order to translate municipalsustainability requirements into developer procurement requirements. Areoccurring theme in the dissertation is that problems are rooted in inter-actor valueconflicts, which are central drivers for value co-creation processes betweenmunicipalities and housing developers.

The dissertation contributes to public land development research by introducing apublic-private value co-creation framework to describe and explain collaborativeexchange and innovation between municipalities and developers. It also provides indepthknowledge of public land development, and more specifically municipal landallocation processes, in sustainability-profiled district developments, which differfrom more typical developments in regards to innovation ambitions. Finally, thedissertation contributes with a micro-level analysis of municipal land allocationprocesses, at the district- and project-level, in the Swedish context. Building on theanalysis and evaluation, recommendations for enhancing private project value andpublic value creation in sustainability-profiled districts are provided. Thedissertation ultimately illustrates how collaboration between public and privateactors aimed at achieving divergent and oftentimes conflicting sustainable urbandevelopment objectives is shaped by the specific planning processes and systemsthey are embedded in.

Abstract [sv]

Svenska kommuner utvecklar hållbarhetsprofilerade stadsdelar för att nå offentligahållbarhetsmål på lokal nivå. Många exempel på liknande typer av distrikt finnsockså i andra europeiska länder. Svenska kommuner använder offentligmarkexploatering för att initiera och leda utvecklingen av dessahållbarhetsprofilerade stadsdelar, som ska exemplifiera hållbar utveckling ochfungera som testbäddar för innovation och urban experimentation. Detta fenomenhar tidigare uppmärksammats, men det finns en brist på forskning som undersökeranvändningen av offentlig mark i dessa typer av distrikt. I svenskt sammanhang harmarkägandet ett betydande inflytande på relationen och samverkan mellankommuner och byggherrar vid markexploatering. I hållbarhetsprofileradestadsdelar samarbetar dessa offentliga och privata aktörer under den kommunalamarkanvisningsprocessen, som är en viktig del av exploateringsprocessen påkommunal mark, för att utveckla och implementera nya hållbara lösningar ochpraxis. Detta samarbete under markanvisningsprocessen utforskas i avhandlingen.

Syftet med avhandlingen är att bidra till forskning på markanvisningsprocesser ihållbarhetsprofilerade stadsdelar med ett samverkansperspektiv på offentligt-privatutbyte. Kommunala markanvisningar i hållbarhetsprofilerade stadsdelar analyserasoch tolkas som värdesamskapande processer. Nyttan av att använda kommunalamarkanvisningar för att forma offentlig-privat samverkan och innovation utvärderassedan med hjälp av teorin om värdesamskapande. Fallstudier används för attundersöka kommunala markanvisningsprocesser i hållbarhetsprofilerade stadsdelarpå distriktsnivån. Intervjuer och dokument används för att undersöka komplexaprocessuella och relationella dynamiker, med särskilt fokus på både kommuners ochbyggherrars perspektiv. Forskningen är inriktad på hållbarhetsprofileradstadsdelsutveckling i Sverige för att få en fördjupad förståelse för just dennanationella kontext. Resultaten diskuteras sedan i relation till offentligmarkutveckling i andra länder.

Resultaten visar på att kommunernas möjligheter att samskapa samhällsvärde medoffentlig markexploatering beror på byggherrarnas förmåga att genomförakommunala hållbarhetskrav. Dessa kommunala hållbarhetskrav ingår imarkanvisningsavtal och är förhandlingsbara under resten avmarkanvisningsprocessen. Potentialen för offentligt värdeskapande beror således påkommunernas och byggherrarnas förmåga att tillsammans designa hållbarhetskravför implementation under markanvisningsprocessen, för att översätta kommunalahållbarhetskrav till byggherrens upphandlingskrav. Ett återkommande tema iavhandlingen är att problem, utmaningar och intressekonflikter bottnar i värdekonflikter mellan aktörer vilka är centrala drivkrafter för värdesamskapandemellan kommuner och byggherrar.

Avhandlingen bidrar till forskning om offentlig markexploatering med ett offentligtprivatvärdesamskapande perspektiv. Den ger också kunskap om offentligmarkexploatering, och mer specifikt kommunala markanvisningsprocesser, ihållbarhetsprofilerade stadsdelar, som skiljer sig från mer typiska bebyggelser.Slutligen bidrar avhandlingen med en distrikts- och projektnivåanalys avkommunala markanvisningsprocesser i den svenska kontexten. Med utgångspunkt ianalysen och utvärderingen ges rekommendationer för att öka privat och offentligtvärdeskapande i hållbarhetsprofilerade stadsdelar, baserade på teorin omvärdesamskapande.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm: KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 2022. p. 128
Series
TRITA-ABE-DLT ; 2245
Keywords
Public land development; sustainable urban development; value cocreation; public value; municipal landownership; land allocation; sustainability requirements; housing; property developers
National Category
Other Civil Engineering
Research subject
Real Estate and Construction Management
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-321338 (URN)978-91-8040-387-0 (ISBN)
Public defence
2022-12-09, Kollegiesalen, Brinellvägen 8, KTH Campus, https://kth-se.zoom.us/j/69286003221, Stockholm, 13:00 (English)
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Available from: 2022-11-16 Created: 2022-11-11 Last updated: 2022-11-16Bibliographically approved

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