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This study in organisation and management studies explores the ways in which engineering contractors and subcontractors experience working on Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs). While NSIPs contribute directly to the UK’s 2020 National Infrastructure Strategy and underpin the UK...

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Published: Swansea, Wales, UK 2024
Institution: Swansea University
Degree level: Doctoral
Degree name: Ph.D
Supervisor: White, Paul ; Finniear, Jocelyn
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description This study in organisation and management studies explores the ways in which engineering contractors and subcontractors experience working on Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs). While NSIPs contribute directly to the UK’s 2020 National Infrastructure Strategy and underpin the UK economy by providing a range of networks vital for jobs, business, and economic growth, little is known about how contractors experience working on such projects (UK. GOV., 2020; Pink et al., 2010). By focussing on the everyday lived experiences of engineering contractors working on one large-scale NSIP in the South of England the study reveals how the benefits to the local communities and long-term income security for local contracting firms associated with such projects is juxtaposed with workers in search of security within and beyond the work environment. The study adopts a qualitative research strategy to focus on the in-depth insights of ten contractors involved with the NSIP and employs Actor Network Theory (ANT) as a theoretical and analytical frame to explore the heterogeneous patterns that emerge and the various impacts of NSIPs. The study employs the novel approach of virtual ethnography to provide depth and insight of the contractors’ lived experiences which may be overlooked by traditional ethnographic methods which can be constrained by a range of factors which include time, geography and in this case, the limits imposed by the Covid pandemic. Through employing ANT and virtual ethnography this study provides an important new dimension to research in work and organisation. The findings of this study highlight three main themes of policy control, felt obligations and (in)security. These themes expose how security becomes laboured into the work of contractors and how work is more precarious in the lower tiers of the contractor hierarchy. In this context contractors labour to secure a sense of security, encompassing both physical financial security and a sense of belonging which remain a central objective for contractors and subcontractors. The research underscores the importance of understanding the activities aimed at achieving worker security and their implications. The study makes important contributions to knowledge in how individuals experience working on NSIPs and the value of virtual ethnography in studying lived experiences of work. The study also provides important insights which have the potential to inform policy by revealing the fluid and ever-changing nature of NSIPs, the complexities and uncertainties inherent in these projects and in navigating the challenges of NSIPs the importance of the informal, subtle connections that emerge.
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