Purpose

Researchers and standardisation bodies are key to accelerating societal transition and contributing to society’s demands for sustainability, resilience and digitalisation. Standards are the agreed-upon best practices published by national or international bodies and are key enablers of transformation. Scholars have not yet identified a relationship between standards and facilities management (FM) research. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of formal standards in FM research.

Design/methodology/approach

A literature review was conducted to identify journal articles addressing standards and FM. A total of 198 journal articles published from 2010 to 2021 were identified. After screening these articles, 27 journal articles were considered the most relevant for data analysis.

Findings

The findings show that the role of standards in research can be analysed thematically, categorically, textually, methodologically and directionally. Standards are relevant to research by defining terms, creating backgrounds, guiding research, supporting the development of new standards and encouraging more collaboration between research and standardisation. Some studies have shown how standards influence research, but only a few have explored how research influences standards.

Research limitations/implications

This research provides examples that inspire stronger collaboration between people and processes in research and standardisation.

Originality/value

The articles collected and analysed in this study comprise original research. A limited preliminary study of ten core articles was presented at the International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction World Congress 2022. This presentation of this work provides an expanded framework for analysing the roles of standards in research. This framework includes (1) categorical analysis of research and standardisation streams; (2) thematic analysis of the topic of interest; (3) textual analysis of the use of the term “standard”; (4) methodological analysis of the influence of standards on the research method; and (5) directional analysis of the intended audience.

中文翻译：

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研究和循证标准为建筑环境的数字化和可持续转型铺平道路

目的

研究人员和标准化机构是加速社会转型和满足社会对可持续性、弹性和数字化需求的关键。标准是由国家或国际机构发布的商定的最佳实践，是转型的关键推动因素。学者们尚未确定标准与设施管理 (FM) 研究之间的关系。本文的目的是调查正式标准在 FM 研究中的作用。

设计/方法/途径

进行了文献综述以确定涉及标准和 FM 的期刊文章。共确定了 2010 年至 2021 年发表的 198 篇期刊文章。筛选这些文章后，有 27 篇期刊文章被认为与数据分析最相关。

发现

研究结果表明，标准在研究中的作用可以从主题、分类、文本、方法论和方向上进行分析。通过定义术语、创建背景、指导研究、支持新标准的开发以及鼓励研究与标准化之间的更多合作，标准与研究相关。一些研究表明标准如何影响研究，但只有少数研究探讨了研究如何影响标准。

研究局限性/影响

这项研究提供了一些例子，可以激发人们与流程在研究和标准化方面加强合作。

原创性/价值

本研究中收集和分析的文章包括原创研究。在 2022 年国际建筑研究与创新理事会世界大会上，对十篇核心文章进行了有限的初步研究。这项工作的介绍为分析标准在研究中的作用提供了一个扩展框架。该框架包括（1）研究和标准化流的分类分析；（2）对感兴趣的话题进行专题分析；(3)“标准”一词使用的文本分析；(4) 标准对研究方法影响的方法学分析；(5) 目标受众的定向分析。