Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine people’s understanding and evaluation of uncertainty intervals produced by experts as part of a quality assurance procedure of large public projects. Design/methodology/approach: Three samples of educated participants (employees in a large...

Purpose: Transaction costs in projects can be reduced through improved collaboration between contractors and clients. The purpose of this paper is to respond to the call for further research on the framework suggested by Li et al. (2015) who presented 26 factors that determine project...

Purpose – This purpose of this paper is to investigate the volume and background of changes done shortly after project completion. Design/methodology/approach – To ensure a consistent set of projects, selection criteria were related to project budget, time of completion, and executing...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present practical difficulties in attempting to implement a partnering approach. Design/methodology/approach – The paper comprises empirical evidence from case studies in Norway and Canada and an extensive literature review on partnering. Findings...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present an overview of the concept of early warning signs in projects and explain how a performance measurement system can be utilized as a source of data for an early warning approach signaling that a project is about to experience problems at some...