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Practical wisdom for leading projects; The case of early warning signs 领导项目的实践智慧；案件的早期预警信号

Project Leadership and Society Pub Date : 2024-12-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.plas.2024.100173

Graham M. Winch , Sara Hajikazemi

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Bridging change and project management: A review and future research directions 衔接变革与项目管理：综述与未来研究方向

Project Leadership and Society Pub Date : 2024-12-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.plas.2024.100172

Elina Jääskä, Kirsi Aaltonen, Liina Hellens, Jaakko Kujala

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Cost estimation in major public projects’ front-end phase: An empirical study on how to improve current practices 重大公共项目前期成本估算：改进实践的实证研究

Project Leadership and Society Pub Date : 2024-12-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.plas.2024.100171

Helene Berg , Anne Strand Alfredsen Larsen , Ole Jonny Klakegg , Morten Welde

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Call for papers: Using AI to drive transformation in project leadership and society 征文：利用人工智能推动项目领导和社会变革

Project Leadership and Society Pub Date : 2024-12-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.plas.2024.100165

Qing Yang , Francesco Di Maddaloni , Antonio Calabrese , Jianfeng Zhao , Xingqi Zou

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Using websites and social media to support local community stakeholder attendance at project town hall meetings 利用网站和社交媒体支持当地社区利益相关者参加项目市政厅会议

Project Leadership and Society Pub Date : 2024-12-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.plas.2024.100164

Anna Lund Jepsen , Pernille Eskerod , Kon Shing Kenneth Chung , Jingbo Zhang , Mauro Ortiz

{"title":"Using websites and social media to support local community stakeholder attendance at project town hall meetings","authors":"Anna Lund Jepsen , Pernille Eskerod , Kon Shing Kenneth Chung , Jingbo Zhang , Mauro Ortiz","doi":"10.1016/j.plas.2024.100164","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.plas.2024.100164","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Engaging local community stakeholders in projects is important. A project town hall meeting is a common practice to do so. However, many project town hall meetings suffer from low attendance. This study investigates how the project organization can use its website and social media to support attendance. The study draws on literature on social media marketing, the customer journey concept, and the use of different appeal elements. It applies a case study approach with two cases: The Western Sydney Airport project and the London Heathrow Expansion project. We found that the project organizations used their websites and the social media Facebook, X and YouTube to a limited extent. Furthermore, they mostly used rational and transactional appeals, thus foregoing the chance to engage stakeholders in attending by application of interactional appeals. Based on the findings, we offer a framework for use of own websites and social media to support the stakeholder journey towards attending project town hall meetings. Our research enriches project management knowledge by highlighting what to consider in the application of websites and social media for local community stakeholder engagement.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":101050,"journal":{"name":"Project Leadership and Society","volume":"6 ","pages":"Article 100164"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143097263","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Online naturalistic inquiry for stakeholder issue analysis: Design and implementation 利益相关者问题分析的在线自然查询：设计与实现

Project Leadership and Society Pub Date : 2024-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.plas.2024.100163

Jingbo Zhang, Kon Shing Kenneth Chung

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Authoritarian leadership in projects: An integrated model to understand the team members’ task and innovative performance 项目中的威权式领导：理解团队成员的任务和创新表现的集成模型

Project Leadership and Society Pub Date : 2024-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.plas.2024.100162

Bingsheng Liu , Shi-Hao Zhou , Dan Wang , Henry J. Liu , David J. Edwards , Yuan Chen

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Overlooked and underused? The benefits and challenges of using causal mapping for project studies 被忽视和利用不足？在项目研究中使用因果关系图的好处和挑战

Project Leadership and Society Pub Date : 2024-11-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.plas.2024.100161

Fran Ackermann , Eunice Maytorena-Sanchez

{"title":"Overlooked and underused? The benefits and challenges of using causal mapping for project studies","authors":"Fran Ackermann , Eunice Maytorena-Sanchez","doi":"10.1016/j.plas.2024.100161","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.plas.2024.100161","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Despite the considerable body of extant research on project management complexities, further investigation of the actualities of practice, and the impact of projects on societies is required – but this is not easy. Research methods that enable researchers to surface, structure, and analyse the range of interacting issues, objectives, values, decisions, and options that constitute project complexities, in a way that provides richness and depth, are critical for advancing the field. This paper provides a synthesis of the literature on causal mapping applied in project studies and reflects on how causal mapping can provide a powerful data collection and analysis technique which can reveal valuable insights on project organising practice. The paper present how causal mapping has been used to support three data collection forms (desk-based, individual and group settings) commonly used in project studies, noting both the benefits and challenges before reflecting upon how it can be used in a complementary manner alongside other data collection approaches such as surveys, and methods such as case studies and action research. The paper concludes with some final comments along with noting potential research directions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":101050,"journal":{"name":"Project Leadership and Society","volume":"5 ","pages":"Article 100161"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142704270","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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How does building information modeling influence decision-making process in the project design? An input, process and output analysis 建筑信息模型如何影响项目设计的决策过程？输入、过程和输出分析

Project Leadership and Society Pub Date : 2024-10-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.plas.2024.100160

Xavier Morin , Alejandro Romero-Torres

{"title":"How does building information modeling influence decision-making process in the project design? An input, process and output analysis","authors":"Xavier Morin , Alejandro Romero-Torres","doi":"10.1016/j.plas.2024.100160","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.plas.2024.100160","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Decision-making is critical throughout the entire project cycle, particularly during the project design stage, where the detailed concept is developed based on stakeholders' requirements and project constraints. To improve project design, various digital technologies are employed to provide stakeholders with comprehensive data for informed decision-making. The paper aims to understand how BIM influence the decision-making process – input, decision and output - during the project design. More specifically, we aim to answer the following question: which decision-making challenges could restrict BIM benefits during the project design stage? Utilizing two embedded case studies and a focus group, we explore the perceived benefits and challenges of BIM in decision-making among project actors. This research contributes to the field of digital technologies in project management by highlighting specific benefits and challenges, such as decision validation and the transformation of decision makers’ roles. Our findings illustrate the interconnected nature of these benefits and challenges through the Input-Process-Output model. We specifically emphasize that the advantages of BIM in the decision-making process can be significantly affected if project organizations do not adapt the roles and competencies of decision makers to effectively utilize BIM. The use of BIM therefore brings novel decision-making challenges, which are presented in the discussion.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":101050,"journal":{"name":"Project Leadership and Society","volume":"5 ","pages":"Article 100160"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142555629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Space in project organising: Insights from planning within and between construction projects 项目组织中的空间：从建筑项目内部和之间的规划中获得的启示

Project Leadership and Society Pub Date : 2024-10-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.plas.2024.100159

Susanna Hedborg , Simon Addyman

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