Effects of dual organizational network embeddedness on safety resilience in construction projects

Purpose Currently, the frequent occurrence of safety accidents in the construction industry has resulted in substantial damage to both national and public lives and properties. In order to gain a deeper understanding and leverage project and company organizational resources to improve overall level of construction safety, this study explores the effects of project and company organization on safety resilience from a network-embedded perspective. Design/methodology/approach This study develops a framework for analyzing dual organizational network embeddedness, which takes into consideration the perspective of network embeddedness. This framework proposes a conceptual model to illustrate the effect mechanism of dual organizational network embeddedness on the construction safety resilience (CSR). Moreover, the 388 valid survey data were collected in construction projects and subjected to empirical analysis by adopting structural equation modeling (SEM). Findings The results demonstrate that both dual organizational network structural embeddedness and relational embeddedness significantly and positively influence the safety resilience in construction projects. The project organizational network embeddedness has a greater effect compared to company organizational network embeddedness. Furthermore, the interaction of dual organizational network relational embeddedness positively promotes construction safety resilience, but the interaction of structural embeddedness is not significant. However, the complexity and uncertainty in safety risks (CUSR) negatively moderate the effect of dual organizational network embeddedness on CSR, and it would reduce the effectiveness of dual organizational network embeddedness in enhancing CSR. Originality/value This study breaks through the boundaries between project organization networks and company organization networks from the perspective of dual network embeddedness, which not only enriches the theoretical foundation of construction safety resilience synergy and linkage but also helps construction project contractors to effectively utilize the strengths of both project and company organization to ensure construction safety.