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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 +4 more
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Identifying a Theoretical Framework for Megaprojects Success and Failure Factors: A Meta-Synthesis Approach [PDF]
ارزش آفرینی در مدیریت کسب و کارMegaproject 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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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 +3 more
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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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Green innovation in megaprojects: A capacity-based analysis of the Shenzhong Link Project in China
Project Leadership and SocietyGrowing environmental challenges and expanding megaprojects have necessitated green transformation of the construction industry. This paper takes the Shenzhong Link Project as an example to explore the capacities required for achieving the goal of green ...
Sha Tao +4 more
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High-Speed Rail: The Wrong Road for America [PDF]
, 2008 In the face of high energy prices and concerns about global warming, environmentalists and planners offer high-speed rail as an environmentally friendly alternative to driving and air travel.
Randal O'Toole
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REPRODUCING OPERATIONAL LANDSCAPES: The Rock Mining for Indonesia's New Capital City
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Indonesia's new capital city is designed to become a green and sustainable city. In this article, we examine the (un)sustainability of the process through which the city is coming into being. Using the sociospatial theory of planetary urbanization, we trace the dialectical relationship between the new city and sites beyond it to show how ...
Bosman Batubara +4 more
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National development in post-revolutionary Egypt: sustainability through water megaprojects?
Frontiers in WaterWater management in Egypt faces an intricate challenge because the country heavily depends on its natural water ecosystem. Novel adaptation and mitigation measures are urgently needed, as competition for water has increased dramatically among ...
Ann-Katrin Ellermann +2 more
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A two-dimensional complexity evaluation model of megaprojects based on structure and attributes
Ain Shams Engineering Journal, 2023 The increasing complexity of megaprojects has brought severe challenges to traditional theories and methods of project management. Traditional evaluation models fail to support managers in properly allocating scarce resources based on project complexity ...
Fuyuan Jia, Pengcheng Xiang, Dan Chen
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Taming the ‘trolls’ : major public projects in the making [PDF]
, 2015 Major projects are not yet sufficiently understood, and practices in project governance and project management do not yet reflect the current state of knowledge of large, complex projects.
Klakegg, Ole Jonny +2 more
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