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The successful delivery of megaprojects: a novel research method [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Megaprojects are often associated with poor delivery performance and poor benefits realization. This article provides a method of identifying, in a quantitative and rigorous manner, the characteristics related to project management success in ...
Kovačević, Miloš   +15 more
core   +2 more sources

A framework for salvaging megaprojects in Africa based on a case study of a refinery and petrochemical complex project

open access: yesScientific African, 2023
Navigating megaprojects to successful completion in low- and middle-income countries is fraught with challenges, often leading to numerous abandoned or underutilised projects.
Victor Adejo Okenyi   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

What motivates stakeholders to engage in collaborative innovation in the infrastructure megaprojects?

open access: yesJournal of Civil Engineering and Management, 2021
Collaborative innovation has become an innovation paradigm to improve innovation performance and firms’ economic output. However, there is relatively little research investigating stakeholders’ drivers for engaging in collaborative innovation and the ...
Xiaoyan Chen   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Analyzing the Knowledge Structure of the Success and Failure Factors of Megaprojects [PDF]

open access: yesمطالعات مدیریت و توسعه پایدار, 2023
Megaproject is a term used to distinguish strategic projects from normal projects. The super project requires the allocation of many resources and has transformative consequences. Much research has been done to identify the success and failure factors of
Jafar Gheidar-Kheljani, Pedram Jahedi
doaj   +1 more source

The Human Side of Megaprojects: Leadership Style and Traits to Face Growing Levels of Complexity and Uncertainty

open access: yes, 2022
Megaprojects, given their complexity, have a tendency to fail or at least not to achieve the objectives initially planned. The gross error committed consists in recognizing a marginal role to the management style of human resources and specifically in ...
Barbara Barabaschi   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Megaprojects – An Anatomy of Perception [PDF]

open access: yesdisP - The Planning Review, 2019
For decades, megaprojects have been on the agendas of policymakers worldwide. The positive effects are often illustrated at the national or regional level, whereas the negative impacts are mostly felt at the local level, which is something that most literature on megapro-jects neglects.
Delphine, Witte, Patrick, Spit, Tejo
openaire   +2 more sources

A shared leadership framework based on boundary spanners in megaprojects [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
Purpose: Megaprojects present an intricated pattern of leadership activities, which evolve over their planning and delivery and comprises several stakeholders.
Zhang L., Smith N., Locatelli G., Cao T.
core   +3 more sources

Advanced views regarding the post‐virgin land geographical space of Eurasia and Russia in the light of current land reforms

open access: yesЮг России: экология, развитие, 2022
Aim. To analyse the consequences of the virgin lands (1954‐1963) agrarian‐social megaproject, and of current land reforms. To elaborate contributions to the Russian post‐virgin land space development strategy.Material and methods.
S. V. Levykin   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Desterradas del río. Hidroituango y la destrucción del cuerpo-territorio por megaproyectos. Entre el interés general y el sostenimiento de la vida

open access: yesIberoamericana: Nordic Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 2021
Through the case of the Hidroituango hydroelectric plant in Colombia, this article proposes that the implementation of megaprojects constitutes a proprietary device in which the expulsion of populations, damage to ecosystems, and deepening inequality ...
Lina Marín Moreno, Marisela Montenegro
doaj   +1 more source

Chaotic Dynamics of Cost Overruns in Oil and Gas Megaprojects: A Review [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Cost overruns are a persistent problem in oil and gas megaprojects. Whilst the extant literature is filled with studies on incidents and causes of cost overruns, underlying theories to explain their emergence in oil and gas megaprojects are few.
Edwards, D.J.   +9 more
core   +1 more source

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