Incidencia de variables de caracterización de Cultura Organizacional en la filosofía Lean Construction para pequeñas y micro empresas constructoras en el Ecuador

Abstract

The Lean Construction framework is adapted in this research to make it accessible to Ecuadorian PYMES. This objective is justified by the limited and different organizational culture of this type of construction companies.We use relevant information extracted from: (1) a research work conducted at Simon Bolivar University contextualizing the role of PYMES in Ecuador, (2) SERCOP, (3) INEN. This information was used to design to conduct a survey among the heads of a set of construction companies located in Quito. This survey allowed to confirm the information collected from the three mentioned sources, and also allowed the identification of a general behavioral pattern of in the subset of construction companies that are de object of this study. This general pattern was used to generate an adapted definition of LC that is suitable to the new enterprise environment identified in Ecuador. The results of this work are evident in a series of products that will help manager to make effective the transference of this emerging technology to the local construction environment, for instance (1) organization charts for the study case, (2) proceeding manual where the differences between the original and adapted LC framework are explicitly exposed.