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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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Revue Marocaine de Recherche en Management et Marketing, 2020 In megaprojects context, it is vital to build good relationships with the stakeholders who are identified as being the most crucial for the end results, for example the subcontractors.
NOUREDDINE AÏT ERRAYS, HANANE ROCHDI
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Cahiers des Amériques Latines, 2021 This article analyzes environmental conflicts associated with urban renewal processes in the coastal area of a neighborhood near the city of Buenos Aires (Argentina) from 2004 onwards.
Marina Wertheimer
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Effective Opportunity management in a Megaproject
Procedia Computer Science, 2018 Abstract This paper has investigated how the new national museum in Oslo has managed uncertainty over a three-year period (2016-2018). A combined approach was chosen for this study, using both a qualitative and a quantitative data collection method. We have collected data from the risk registers at two phases of the project – the planning phase (2010-
Johansen, Agnar +2 more
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Managing public–private megaprojects: Paradoxes, complexity, and project design [PDF]
International Journal of Project Management, 2008 Recent studies show that despite their growing popularity, megaprojects - large-scale, complex projects delivered through various partnerships between public and private organisations - often fail to meet costs estimations, time schedules and project outcomes and are motivated by vested interests which operate against the public interest.
van-Marrewijk A +3 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The drivers of firms' participation in fragile markets have become increasingly complex. Under such conditions, the conventional explanation focusing on incentives within the OLI framework—ownership, location, and internalization advantages—proves insufficient.
Yu Ri Kim, Seo Yun Choi, Taewoo Roh
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Governance of Relationship Risks in Megaprojects: A Social Network Analysis
Advances in Civil Engineering, 2019 Megaprojects usually involve an alarmingly large number of stakeholders that form a complicated social network and lead to significant relationship risks to client/owners.
Linlin Xie, Ting Han, Martin Skitmore
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Buildings, 2021 Risk identification and management are the two most important parts of construction project management. Better risk management can help in determining the future consequences, but identifying possible risk factors has a direct and indirect impact on the ...
Debalina Banerjee Chattapadhyay +2 more
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THE URBAN METABOLISM OF FLOOD PROTECTION INFRASTRUCTURE IN JAKARTA, INDONESIA
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Investments in large‐scale climate infrastructures are central to emerging forms of climate urbanism. In Jakarta, flood protection infrastructures seek to protect the city from devastating flood events in anticipation of future catastrophes.
Sophie Webber, Wahyu Kusuma Astuti
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THE CHAINMAKER: How Intermediaries Sustain Urban Policy Initiatives over Time
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Practitioners implementing urban climate initiatives are frequently faced with the intermittent nature of urban projects and the short‐termism of policy experiments. In this conjuncture, understanding how urban transformations are advanced necessitates grasping how small‐scale efforts are carried forward or sustained despite these brief time ...
HANNA HILBRANDT +2 more
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