The importance of the human side of project management to assess the success of international development project has not been fully considered yet. An analysis of the literature on the project success definition, focused on the success criteria and success factors, was carried out. The...

Increasing interest in the topic of sustainable development is observable in business context (Porter & Kramer, 2011). The necessity to integrate sustainability principles into core processes of a company to receive performance benefits are widely discussed (Wagner 2007). During the last years...

Project control has been a research topic since decades that attracts both academics and practitioners. Project control systems indicate the direction of change in preliminary planning variables compared with actual performance. In case their current project performance deviates from the planned...

The new realities, generated by globalization and asymmetric conflicts, have a great impact and influence upon society. The military organization has to adapt itself to this new reality. The efficacy of military action is based on the pragmatic process of defense resource management, through the...

To increase the supply of electricity and reduce environmental pollution, China has made an effort to boost the renewable energy. As a renewable energy, wind energy has been maintaining a rapid growth over the last ten years. China has the largest construction market for wind power in the world,...

This paper investigates decision making in the stage-gate process used by an aerospace manufacturer. More specifically, it focuses on the way decision makers deal with uncertainties and ambiguities when making decisions. The stage-gate model was found to be a discussion trigger — a boundary...

Researchers have delved in the study on ICT (Information Communication and Technology) adoption in schools worldwide. Literatures based on social approaches specify that successful ICT adoption by teachers is reliant on dynamics such as attitude, resource provision, skills among others. This...

The value of a project can have multiple significances and it can be assessed in a relation with the project stakeholders’ perceptions, assumptions and expectations. When considering a project, the company is usually interested in economic value. This value can be assessed isolated - the...