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This paper studies how increasing teacher compensation at hard-to-staff schools can reduce inequality in access to qualified teachers. Leveraging an unconditional change in the teacher compensation structure in Peru, we first show causal evidence that increasing salaries at less desirable locations attracts better quality applicants and improves student test scores. We then estimate a model of teacher preferences over local amenities, school characteristics, and wages using geocoded job postings and rich application data from the nationwide centralized teacher assignment system. Our estimated model suggests that the current policy is both ineficient and not large enough to effectively undo the inequality of initial conditions that hard-to-staff schools and their communities face. Counterfactual analyses that incorporate equilibrium sorting effects characterize alternative wage schedules and quantify the cost of reducing structural inequality in the allocation of teacher talent across schools.

Internal and external quality auditors must perform a complex balancing act requiring good judgement, interpretation, emotional intelligence, and empathy to achieve several, often conflicting, objectives. The position of the auditor in the financial sector has been examined in the literature in detail; however, in the construction sector this area has been largely unexplored, a gap in knowledge that this paper aims to help fill. This review considers Power's theory of 'The Audit Society' and the rich financial auditing literature to examine the position and actions of internal and external construction quality auditors. The findings show that the audit is a complex construction of performance and judgement and that the 'facticity' of the audit should not be taken for granted. Auditor independence and competence can be difficult to achieve within the current construction quality regulatory system. Construction quality auditing takes place behind closed doors - greater exposure is needed of auditing practice.

As part of the effort at making a climate neutral economy, the EU has developed a sustainable finance taxonomy to steer capital flows towards sustainable activities, connecting financial and environmental elements of sustainability in a new way. Here we study how the taxonomy regulation, affects the field of construction. The research builds on institutional theory and empirical material from interviews and annual reports. This is done to establish a broad understanding of the field structure, and how the organisations in the field respond. The taxonomy presents new challenges and barriers. It is concluded that even though the purpose of the regulation is to motivate companies to document their sustainable activities and develop more sustainable businesses, the company responses have so far been diverse, to some extent reluctant and for some even evasive. The taxonomy will change notions of sustainability, but it is likely that it will enter a heterogeneous rather than a uniform direction. As part of the effort at making a climate neutral economy, the EU has developed a sustainable finance taxonomy to steer capital flows towards sustainable activities, connecting financial and environmental elements of sustainability in a new way. Here we study how the taxonomy regulation, affects the field of construction. The research builds on institutional theory and empirical material from interviews and annual reports. This is done to establish a broad understanding of the field structure, and how the organisations in the field respond. The taxonomy presents new challenges and barriers. It is concluded that even though the purpose of the regulation is to motivate companies to document their sustainable activities and develop more sustainable businesses, the company responses have so far been diverse, to some extent reluctant and for some even evasive. The taxonomy will change notions of sustainability, but it is likely that it will enter a heterogeneous rather than a uniform direction.

This study discusses how digital infrastructures in the Danish building industry affect the mental work environment in a project organisation, by focusing on the information and communications technology agreement as a term of reference for the division of labour and the specification of digital work. Based on interviews from a case study, namely a renovation project from a major Danish real estate owner, this paper studies the interactions between social and technical practices in a network and draws on concepts from actor-network theory to analyse the findings. The study sheds light on how the network around the information and communications technology agreement is dominated by one enactment, and it is found that displacements occur when one enactment becomes dominant. In these displacements, the mental work environment is pressurised, which leads to stressors, shifts in core activities and employees' struggle to find meaning in their tasks. However, the study also points out how digital tools can help to ensure a good mental work environment by strengthening project collaboration.

Construction companies are commonly portrayed as project-based organisations that respond to client requirements and deliver standardised works and services determined by the traditional construction trades. However, modern construction companies are also partaking an increasingly important role in delivering sustainable solutions to social and environmental problems. The objective of the study is to provide insights into the efforts of a Danish construction company in delivering sustainable solutions by devising social and environmental ventures. In this regard, we have a special interest in understanding the role of the marketing department. The empirical material of the study is based on observations and conversations with employees in the marketing department gathered between 2018-2022. In the analysis, we examine two distinct ventures devised by the marketing department through an institutional work framework. On this basis, the study concludes that the marketing department plays a critical role in devising new social and environmental ventures that affect regulative, normative, and cultural-cognitive prescriptions in construction.

Introducing digital objects in facility management enables professionals to coordinateoperation and management tasks. However, using digital objects is not a "neutral"matter. Instead, digital objects shift the distribution of responsibilities and create newways of visualising professionals' work performance that create frustrations anddiscontent among the facility managers. Building on ethnographic fieldwork andinspiration from the Science and Technology Studies field, the study investigates acase concerning the operation and management of an office building in Copenhagen,Denmark. Findings show that the operation and management professionals getfrustrated when the technical and digital systems of the building cannot solve theissues experienced by the building users. Limited access to systems obstructs theprofessionals in their work, and the systems create distance between the building andthe means to solve the experienced problems. The study suggests paying moreattention to digital systems' effects on professionals' mental health within facilitymanagement. Introducing digital objects in facility management enables professionals to coordinate operation and management tasks. However, using digital objects is not a "neutral" matter. Instead, digital objects shift the distribution of responsibilities and create new ways of visualising professionals' work performance that create frustrations and discontent among the facility managers. Building on ethnographic fieldwork and inspiration from the Science and Technology Studies field, the study investigates a case concerning the operation and management of an office building in Copenhagen, Denmark. Findings show that the operation and management professionals get frustrated when the technical and digital systems of the building cannot solve the issues experienced by the building users. Limited access to systems obstructs the professionals in their work, and the systems create distance between the building and the means to solve the experienced problems. The study suggests paying more attention to digital systems' effects on professionals' mental health within facility management.