Alexander Styhre is Professor of Operations Management in the School of Technology Management, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. He is the author, co-author and editor of thirteen books in the field of organization theory, including The Innovative Bureaucracy: Bureaucracy in the Age of Fluidity (Routledge, 2007).

This new evidence-based book shows how knowledge management can make sense in the construction industry, viewed as being engaged in the material transformation of "nature into buildings". It takes findings from three very different businesses and demonstrates the situational and context-bound nature of knowledge in the construction industry, showing "knowledge" to be a remarkably heterogeneous concept.

1. Managing Knowledge in the Construction Industry 2. Site Manager Work and the Use of Coaching 3. Architectural Work as Practice: Materialized Semiosis 4. Knowing the Concrete: Knowledge and Skills in a Specialist Construction Company 5. Knowledge and Construction Work: Concluding Remarks