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Bigger is better or how governments learned to stop worrying and love megaprojects [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Megaprojects, with their sheer size and their physical and emotional impact, can emerge as central elements around which political elites construct an ideology.
Menga, Filippo
core   +5 more sources

Adopting a QCA Approach to Investigating the Risks Involved in Megaprojects from Auditing Perspective

open access: yesDiscrete Dynamics in Nature and Society, 2019
There is an increase of megaproject construction worldwide. At the same time, risks involved in megaprojects have also become a wide concern. Extending from the macrolevel of qualitative analysis focusing on complexity, politics, and morality, the ...
Liang Ma   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Risk management in a mega-project: the Universal EXPO 2015 case [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The paper analyses the literature on risk management in mega-projects suggesting possible mitigation actions to be considered in the stakeholders' management.
Locatelli, Giorgio, Mancini, Mauro
core   +1 more source

The Formation and Evolution of Interorganisational Business Networks in Megaprojects: A Case Study of Chinese Skyscrapers

open access: yesComplexity, 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
doaj   +1 more source

Конструктивные решения несъемной железобетонной опалубки для комплексного повышения эксплуатационных качеств гражданских зданий [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The objective of this article is to analyze and propose ways of improving unskimed reinforced formwork being a forming unit of civic building performance.
Ananin, M. Yu.   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Formalising Sustainability Management as a Core Process Group in Project Management

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainability has become a strategic imperative for organisations, yet widely used project management standards such as the PMBoK sixth and seventh editions still do not formalise how sustainability should be embedded across project work. This gap matters because PMBoK‐based processes shape governance, roles, documentation and performance ...
Cinzia Dessi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Inorganic‐Directed Charge Delocalization Channels: Boosting Uniform Charge Distribution and Rapid Na+ Transport for Solid‐State Sodium Metal Batteries

open access: yesCarbon Energy, EarlyView.
This work develops a PM@PN composite solid electrolyte via inorganic‐induced organic molecular reconstruction. It constructs continuous interfacial ion superhighways, enables uniform Na+ deposition, and significantly enhances ionic conductivity and electrochemical stability for all‐solid‐state sodium metal batteries.
Jiaze Li   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Examining the effect of project planning on megaproject performance: The conditional mediating role of integration

open access: yesDevelopments in the Built Environment
While 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
doaj   +1 more source

Why Mass Media Matter to Planning Research: The Case of Megaprojects

open access: yes, 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
core   +1 more source

Profiles of organisational culture in Indonesian construction companies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Although relatively few studies have been undertaken analyzing the drivers of performance for construction companies in producing and delivering satisfactory quality of project works, findings from previous research reveal that there is a significant ...
Coffey, Vaughan   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

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