In this study, we seek to conceptualise multi-dimensional impacts of infrastructure investment through case studies of three nationally significant highways programmes in England. We use system thinking principles to characterise socioeconomic and policy impacts that may emerge from the...

The aim of this paper is to lay out a novel analytical perspective for project governance. Applying two elementary concepts of Luhmann's organisation theory, distinction and autopoiesis, as well as Luhmann's decision-making model offers a deeper comprehension of the project, which renders a...

Team resilience is a critically essential contributor to team effectiveness. However, the impact of team resilience on project management success has been little studied. This article aims to investigate the influence of team resilience on project management success in the context of information...

Development of healthcare services is a societal responsibility often appearing as major public projects. These types of projects often have a long lifetime expectancy and represent large investments and changes to established welfare systems with a considerable societal impact. This makes...

Research communities across multiple disciplines have demonstrated an increasing concern about variations in the performance of social-ecological systems. In response to this concern, holistic research on resilience explores explanations for the performance of the systems under both predictable...

The current qualitative research methodologies employed to study projects are heavily dependent on interviews, despite data being created across different media in this digital age. Social media, news articles, LinkedIn profiles, WhatsApp groups, etc. can have influence on project stakeholders,...

In this article we present findings from an investigation into the influence of partnering success factors on multi-partner projects’ abilities to meet time schedule, budget, and technical specifications. Our findings are based on the analysis of nation-wide surveys within the engineering...

Understanding job requirements for adaptive performance is increasingly important in light of the pace of change that typifies many workplaces today. The purpose of this research is to investigate job requirements for adaptive performance in a sample set of project managers. The eight-dimension...

The project management literature recognizes collaboration as being important to project success. However, clear guidance on how collaboration can be developed and maintained amongst key project stakeholders remains a gap in this literature. In parallel, the environmental management literature...

This research adds a comprehensive way of assessing competencies, contrasting with the usual reductionist approach that uses off-the-shelf instruments. The study reveals 27 competencies to manage complex projects based upon a comprehensive analysis of 22 interviews with senior practitioners...