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Understanding megaproject success beyond the project close-out stage [PDF]

, 2015
© 2015 Johan Fahri. Project success has always been an important topic in the project management literature. One of the main discussions is concerned with how a project’s success is evaluated and what factors lead to achieving this success. Traditionally
Biesenthal, C, Fahri, J, Pollack, J, Sankaran, S   +3 more
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Cheia de axé (full of axé): Spirituality, resistance, and repair in Pernambuco's Afro‐Brazilian traditional communities

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
wiley   +1 more source

Climbing to the top: Personal life stories on becoming megaproject leaders

Project Leadership and Society, 2023
This paper captures a better understanding of the career development of people leading megaprojects through the use of biographical research method. The characteristics of megaprojects cause serious and diverse challenges for their leaders, but programs ...
Alfons van Marrewijk, Shankar Sankaran, Nathalie Drouin, Ralf Müller   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cost overruns – helping to define what they really mean [PDF]

, 2018
Civil engineers are often in the firing line for alleged cost overruns, particularly on major publicly funded infrastructure projects. This usually occurs when the final cost of a project is simply compared with the original estimate, even though this ...
Ansar A, BBC, Cameron K, Cantarelli CC, Cantarelli CC, CII (Construction Industry Institute), Diletta Colette Invernizzi, GIF (Generation IV International Forum), Giorgio Locatelli, HM Treasury, Jadhav P, Merrow EW, Naomi J Brookes, NDA (Nuclear Decommissioning Authority), OECD NEA, OECD NEA (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Nuclear Energy Agency), Osborne Clarke, PMI (Project Management Institute), Rogers D, Sainati T, Torp O, WNA (World Nuclear Association)   +21 more
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Transdisciplinarity From Principles to Practice: Insights From EU Horizon Research Projects on Sustainability

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, Ana Prades, Josep Espluga, Markku Lehtonen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sectoral Evolution and Structural Transformation in Djibouti: A Multivariate and Regularized Regression Analysis Toward Achieving SDG 9

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
wiley   +1 more source

Megaproject complexity attributes and competences: lessons from IT and construction projects

International Journal of Information Systems and Project Management, 2019
Megaprojects have been associated with persistent underperformance technically, financially, socially and environmentally. This underperformance has been attributed to the inherent complexity attributes and the gaps in the form of the mismatch in the ...
Maxwell Nyarirangwe, Oluwayomi. K. Babatunde, , ,   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

Identifying a Theoretical Framework for Megaprojects Success and Failure Factors: A Meta-Synthesis Approach [PDF]

ارزش آفرینی در مدیریت کسب و کار
Megaproject means projects with a wide range of efforts to achieve strategic goals in time, financial and qualitative macro frameworks. Megaprojects have deep, comprehensive and lasting outcomes.
Jafar Gheidar-Kheljani, pedram jahedi
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STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENT STUDIES IN MEGAPROJECTS CONTEXT: THE ROLE OF TRUST, FORMAL CONTRACT AND RELATIONAL CAPITAL

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
doaj   +1 more source