ABSTRACT
Generalising the construction and film industries as a Project Based Inter-Organisational Network (PBION) and Building Information Modelling (BIM) adoption as a systemic change allows phenomena to be compared. The film industry was chosen because of the number of disruptive systemic innovations that have occurred since the late 19th century. Acknowledging that the nature of end products in both industries differ widely, this paper draws fragmentation as common phenomena and is associated with increased transaction costs and lower fixed costs. Due to this research area’s highly abstract interdisciplinary nature, two perspectives are investigated for their explanatory and guiding potential. Structuration theory in a macro-perspective associated with the accumulated changes that occur when implementing a form of systemic innovation whereas CHAT is associated with the use of tools in historically developing interacting activity systems and systemic changes.
