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Owner challenges on major projects: The case of UK government [PDF]
, 2020 Many studies agree that owner organisations are important for successful project organising, but they tend to focus on particular aspects of project organising rather than providing a holistic analysis of owners as organisations.
Cha, J., Cha, J., Winch, G., Winch, G.
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Complexity, 2020 Megaprojects are implemented by different organisations, such as owners, consultants, and contractors. Gradually, these organisations and their connections can form business networks that influence both the market position of individual organisations and
Yujie Lu +4 more
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Why Mass Media Matter to Planning Research: The Case of Megaprojects
, 2012 This article asks how planning scholarship may effectively gain impact in planning practice through media exposure. In liberal democracies the public sphere is dominated by mass media.
Flyvbjerg, Bent
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Construction megaprojects, large‐scale, complex, and capital‐intensive, are particularly prone to inefficiencies, cost overruns, delays, and environmental degradation due to fragmented workflows, stakeholder misalignment, and resource intensity.
Abdelazim Ibrahim +5 more
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Should we build more large dams? The actual costs of hydropower megaproject development [PDF]
, 2014 A brisk building boom of hydropower mega-dams is underway from China to Brazil. Whether benefits of new dams will outweigh costs remains unresolved despite contentious debates.
Ansar, Atif +3 more
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Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores how Afro‐Brazilian communities in Pernambuco respond to state‐led industrial development through culturally rooted practices of resistance and repair. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research in the coastal municipalities of Cabo de Santo Agostinho and Ipojuca, this study traces the effects of Brazil's large‐scale ...
Shelly Annette Biesel
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Developments in the Built EnvironmentWhile the project planning-performance relationship received much attention, the effects of project planning on megaproject performance have not been investigated empirically and little is known about the conditional mediating process between them.
Wensheng Lin +4 more
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Complexity for megaprojects in the energy sector [PDF]
, 2017 Megaprojects are characterised by their large-scale capital costs, long duration and extraordinary levels of technical and process complexity. Empirical data demonstrate that these projects experience alarming rates of failure.
Bosché, F, Kian Manesh Rad, E, Sun, M
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Transdisciplinary research (TD) is widely invoked to tackle complex sustainable‐development challenges by integrating scientific and societal knowledge and fostering collaboration among researchers, decision‐makers, practitioners and affected publics.
Carles Vañó‐Agulló +3 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Djibouti's economic evolution over the past two decades reveals a distinct dual structure: a steadily expanding service sector that anchors the economy and a volatile industrial sector driven by episodic, foreign‐financed infrastructure projects.
Sadik Aden Dirir
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