Le contrôle de gestion d’une innovation est une problématique délicate, et pour certains insoluble, en particulier lorsque le développement de nouveaux produits ou services s’appuie sur des technologies dont le modèle économique est peu connu. Toutefois, l’article présente un cadre...

An important consideration in cost risk analysis is the amount of correlation between different cost elements. If correlation is ignored, both the probability and magnitude of costs overruns could be significantly underestimated. The two major difficulties in implementing correlation addressed...

Traditionally, a successful project was seen as one in which the triad of time, budget and specifications was complied with at a profit. Current project literature places great emphasis on customer satisfaction as a fourth important success parameter. This paper discusses project management...

Managing through projects has become important for generating new knowledge to cope with technological and market discontinuities. This paper examines how the fit between the creation of technological and market knowledge and important project management characteristics, i.e. project autonomy...

In this paper, a comprehensive cost-benefit analysis is implemented for the project of Yueyang-Zhuzhou Oil Product Pipeline, considering all members of society as whole. We focus on the social welfare aspects of the project as well as the project's risk resistance capacity.

Thanks to a survey on 115 takeovers completed in France, we identify similarities between takeover processes and project management. Three case studies show various relations between acquisition processes and organizational change. Change can either be bounded to acquisitions to come, or...

Reliable construction schedules are important for effective co-ordination across the supply chain and various trades at the construction work face. Reliability of construction schedules can be enhanced and improved through satisfying all potential constraints prior to execution on site....

Engineering work is intangible and difficult to measure and manage. Engineering project tasks entail various degrees of uncertainty and equivocality (U&E). Quantifying U&E of project tasks helps understand and manage engineering work. This study developed an assessing questionnaire from five...

The paper aims to provide a language and a conceptual toolkit to deepen our understanding of the impact of relational and social issues on the success of construction projects. Building on several streams of literature, as well as on individual and group interviews with construction...