This thesis focuses on an organizational change analysis for industrialized construction concepts, examining IC on an organizational level from the perspective of today's industry and a conventional construction actor. In this context, the work in a first part synthesizes existing IC literature and frames that in organizational scaffolds. Herein, it maps industrialized construction in its strategic varieties and highlights IC in comparison to conventional construction in terms of construction and business processes and the respective business models, which differ in almost all areas and illustrate the highly disruptive character of IC. In a second part, the thesis employs a case study to examine innovation barriers that a conventional construction actor has to expect when trying to adapt his business and implement IC as a business innovation, and identifies three innovation barrier patterns which as interrelated implications affect this innovation from its three core stakeholder perspectives: From top-down, the organization's initial economic situation causes a risk-averse behavior, constrains investments in innovation and thus the innovation's progress and impact on this initial situation. From the bottom-up, a conforming construction culture of self-interest and limited openness, as well as a lack of communication and collaboration, provoke a lack of active support for innovation and an additional resistance to change from individuals. Finally, in its environment, IC encounters an unprepared value chain and infrastructure, and a market in which industrialization and the need for optimized and sustainable building concepts has yet to be established.     «

This thesis focuses on an organizational change analysis for industrialized construction concepts, examining IC on an organizational level from the perspective of today's industry and a conventional construction actor. In this context, the work in a first part synthesizes existing IC literature and frames that in organizational scaffolds. Herein, it maps industrialized construction in its strategic varieties and highlights IC in comparison to conventional construction in terms of construction...     »