Sociotechnical transitions are mostly seen in the literature as processes where actors and technologies in small niches peripheral to an organizational field, accumulate momentum, scale up, aggregate, and eventually bring about large-scale regime change. Foundational examples include the British transition from sailing ships to steamships and the American transition from traditional factories to mass production. Herein lies a paradox, transitions concern large scale system change for example transition to electric cars or renewable energy, but large-scale options for technological change driven by incumbents have received less attention in transitions research. This is an important opportunity for transition research to draw on the literature of project management research on large-scale projects. We bridge transitions research and project management research by exploring speciation and aggregation from both perspectives. We illustrate how this bridge may be instantiated drawing on published research and interviews on six megaprojects that have been instrumental in the digital transformation of UK construction: (i) the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, (ii) Heathrow Terminal 5, (iii) London Olympics, (iv) Crossrail, (v) Thames Tideway and (vi) High Speed Two. The speciation of digital technology seeds the process of aggregation and UK industry transition which is driven by incumbents at the organizational field core and ripples outward to its periphery. This is a reverse process to the one mostly considered in transition research where change initiates in small niches peripheral to an organizational field and propagates until it eventually brings about large-scale change to its core.

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项目作为转型中的物种形成和聚合机制：在英国建筑、工程和施工行业的数字化中架起项目管理和转型研究的桥梁。

社会技术转型在文献中大多被视为组织领域外围小领域的参与者和技术积累动力、扩大规模、聚合并最终带来大规模政权更迭的过程。基本的例子包括英国从帆船向轮船的转变以及美国从传统工厂向大规模生产的转变。这里存在一个悖论，转型涉及大规模的系统变革，例如向电动汽车或可再生能源的转型，但由现有企业驱动的大规模技术变革选择在转型研究中受到的关注较少。这是转型研究借鉴大型项目管理研究文献的重要机会。我们通过从两个角度探索物种形成和聚集，将转型研究和项目管理研究联系起来。我们利用已发表的研究和对六个大型项目的采访来说明如何实例化这座桥，这些项目对英国建筑业的数字化转型发挥了重要作用：(i) 英吉利海峡隧道铁路线、(ii) 希思罗机场 5 号航站楼、(iii) 伦敦奥运会，(iv) Crossrail，(v) Thames Tideway 和 (vi) High Speed Two。数字技术的形态催生了聚合和英国产业转型的过程，这一过程由组织领域核心的现有企业推动，并向外波及到其外围。这是与转型研究中最常考虑的过程相反的过程，在转型研究中，变革始于组织领域外围的小利基，并不断传播，直到最终带来大规模的核心变革。