Collective sensemaking becomes prominent to the teams in global construction engineering project (GCEP) settings in order to enable resilience against the calamites encountered. Both natural and man-made calamities that are come across in these projects influence the team performance adversely and these teams need enabling resilience against them. For this purpose, they need making collective sense promptly to know what is going on around the work environment. However, making collective sense is a significant challenge for these teams because the team members do not have face-to-face interaction in a physical proximity due to their virtual team set up. Therefore, knowing how collective sensemaking is made of can facilitate them to identify the best practices for its formation. However, what components make collective sensemaking in the GCEP team settings is still a significant knowledge gap although a plethora of literature is available in this research context. Thus, this paper conceptualizes the model of collective sensemaking with its components through literature and confirms its model fit through the results of a questionnaire survey among the team members in the GCEP settings. Both exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis have been used to confirm this model. The teams in GCEP settings can use this model to understand what aspects are to be prioritized for the formation of collective sensemaking to become resilient against calamities. This finding becomes an original contribution to the construction management research domain and the future researchers can use them to develop further theories and practices.
Gunathilaka et al. (Sun,) studied this question.