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{"title":"Bridging the gap: Reintegrating legal perspectives into project management","authors":"Armando Castro ,&nbsp;Tristano Sainati","doi":"10.1016/j.plas.2024.100154","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.plas.2024.100154","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>While legal topics have been acknowledged by project management academics, scholarly engagement between project management and the law needs to be further developed. This paper examines the intersection of law and project management addressing the growing complexity and multifaceted nature of contemporary projects and their impacts on society. It starts by reviewing previous project management research that has considered legal themes, such as contracts, delivery, disputes, governance, procurement and compliance. Subsequently, the importance of the context of the project is also briefly considered, with a recognition of its influence on the nature and resolution of legal disputes within projects and emerging themes. Then the legal foundation of projects is explored and the concept of legal projects and portfolios is proposed. The paper concludes by inviting the interdisciplinary research community to establish a new line of inquiry that explores the legal dimensions of project management and how project management can influence the legal profession and research.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101050,"journal":{"name":"Project Leadership and Society","volume":"5 ","pages":"Article 100154"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666721524000395/pdfft?md5=0b0480782683d340d3f013b2bbbdf996&pid=1-s2.0-S2666721524000395-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142229445","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}

{"title":"Managing stakeholders for implementing innovations: The case of a flood protection project in Kenya","authors":"Johan Ninan ,&nbsp;Louis Nelen ,&nbsp;Lisanne Middelbeek ,&nbsp;Sunar Sutarto Hardjosusono ,&nbsp;Dominique Kromwijk ,&nbsp;Tristan Cheaz ,&nbsp;Lillian Kalela","doi":"10.1016/j.plas.2024.100153","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.plas.2024.100153","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Innovative projects, such as those for flood protection in developing countries, are urgent, stakeholder intense, and need to be carried out even in contexts where sufficient governance frameworks are not in place. This research seeks to understand how innovative projects can be implemented in weak institutional contexts by focusing on managing stakeholders in the single in-depth case study of the implementation of the SLAMDAM innovative project in the Isiolo County in Kenya. Following the analysis of 12 semi-structured interviews with 27 different stakeholders and 7 observations of stakeholder interactions, we answer the following questions: 1) what are the challenges during implementation of the innovation projects in weak-institutional contexts? 2) how are these challenges addressed through strategies? 3) how can we theorize the relationship between challenges and strategies in weak institutional contexts? The challenges include community resistance, information fragmentation, disjoined efforts, and governance inefficiency. Theoretically, we highlight how ad-hoc workarounds are operationalized in weak-institutional contexts and how they can lead to lasting changes by building governance frameworks in the long term. Practically, this research offer valuable guidance for practitioners involved in innovative projects, particularly in developing countries with weak institutional frameworks.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101050,"journal":{"name":"Project Leadership and Society","volume":"5 ","pages":"Article 100153"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666721524000383/pdfft?md5=63556267682b629c7541de56460ae1e4&pid=1-s2.0-S2666721524000383-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142172511","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}

{"title":"Meta-organizing and responsibilization: Government strategies for community engagement and high-quality development in public–private megaprojects","authors":"Ulohomuno Eze Afieroho ,&nbsp;Yongkui Li ,&nbsp;Yilong Han ,&nbsp;Mladen Radujkovic","doi":"10.1016/j.plas.2024.100151","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.plas.2024.100151","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Community engagement is essential for creating social value and fostering high-quality development in megaprojects. However, organizing such engagement within public-private partnerships is particularly complex in weak institutional contexts, such as those found in sub-Saharan Africa. Existing research often depoliticizes community engagement, overlooking the critical role of government. Additionally, empirical studies on this phenomenon in sub-Saharan Africa remain scarce. In this study, we adopt a governmentality lens and a design science research method to identify meta-organizing and responsibilization as governmental strategies for organizing community engagement in weak institutional contexts, such as those in sub-Saharan Africa. Through an embedded case study of a megaproject in Nigeria, we develop two sets of design principles that form a transformational community engagement framework. Our findings have implications for community engagement practices in megaprojects within weak institutional contexts and contribute to mainstream external stakeholder engagement research.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101050,"journal":{"name":"Project Leadership and Society","volume":"5 ","pages":"Article 100151"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266672152400036X/pdfft?md5=942442d7f3d62ca3cfd14fdabbc53d5f&pid=1-s2.0-S266672152400036X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142167442","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}

{"title":"Mega research infrastructure as a driver for high-quality development and innovation: Promoting scientific cooperation and interdisciplinarity","authors":"Ying Xing ,&nbsp;Yuejia Wu ,&nbsp;xiao Xiao ,&nbsp;Daojuan Wang ,&nbsp;Ling-ling Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.plas.2024.100150","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.plas.2024.100150","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Mega research infrastructures, as megaprojects, play a crucial role in promoting high-quality development, particularly in relation to innovation. They contribute to the development of disciplinary layouts and scientific collaborations. Additionally, during the operational phase of a infrastructure, maximizing efficiency and ensuring sustainable development become key aspects of project management. The operation of mega research infrastructures involves increasing levels of interdisciplinarity, interagency collaboration, and cross-regional cooperation. Therefore, it is essential to further clarify the characteristics of scientific collaboration within these facilities and understand the current status and evolving trends of disciplinary and collaborative networks. This work serves as a fundamental and necessary endeavor. In this study, we employ social network analysis methods to investigate the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility as a case study. We analyze the network structure and evolution of its collaborative and disciplinary networks from 2009 to 2022. The findings reveal the enormous potential and value of mega research infrastructures in promoting scientific research cooperation and development. They emphasize the need for increased attention and support for instrument scientists by facility managers, as well as the importance of expanding collaboration areas and formats to enrich the range of disciplines involved. The contribution of this study lies in its systematic analysis of the evolutionary process of collaborative and disciplinary networks within mega research infrastructures. It reveals the scientific value of these facilities in driving scientific research cooperation and interdisciplinary integration, providing a scientific basis for project management and policy formulation in the operational phase of mega research infrastructures. The research will align the strategic development direction of mega research infrastructures with the requirements of high-quality development and deepen the foundational role of mega research infrastructures in supporting high-quality development.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":101050,"journal":{"name":"Project Leadership and Society","volume":"6 ","pages":"Article 100150"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143093203","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}

{"title":"Deep learning-based computer vision in project management: Automating indoor construction progress monitoring","authors":"Biyanka Ekanayake ,&nbsp;Johnny Kwok Wai Wong ,&nbsp;Alireza Ahmadian Fard Fini ,&nbsp;Peter Smith ,&nbsp;Vishal Thengane","doi":"10.1016/j.plas.2024.100149","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.plas.2024.100149","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Progress monitoring is crucial for effective project management, particularly in construction projects. The adoption of computer vision with deep learning expedites automation, accuracy, and efficiency in construction progress monitoring by overcoming the challenges of laborious, and error prone manual methods. While there is growing attention on developing computer vision based deep learning models for construction progress monitoring, deployment platforms for project managers are lacking. Using computer vision, this study develops a Mask Recurrent Convolutional Neural Network deep learning model. It utilizes progress images of drywall construction from two indoor construction sites and tests the model on a third indoor site in Sydney, Australia. The model is capable of automated as-built visual detection and work-in-progress measurement. The study also provides an understanding on the deployment process of the deep learning model on a cloud-based platform called Streamlit. By developing a model tailored for automatically quantifying work-in-progress of indoor construction elements and detailing the process of deploying that model on a cloud-based platform, this study significantly advances digitalization of construction project management. Project managers, stand to benefit from these advancements by gaining access to more accurate and automated construction progress monitoring for better decision-making.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101050,"journal":{"name":"Project Leadership and Society","volume":"5 ","pages":"Article 100149"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666721524000346/pdfft?md5=751509091c96c5620340e94eaab7fa2c&pid=1-s2.0-S2666721524000346-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142058330","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}

{"title":"The future of learning: How artificial intelligence and other new technologies revolutionize project management education & training","authors":"Costanza Mariani ,&nbsp;Kirsi Aaltonen ,&nbsp;Helgi þór Ingason ,&nbsp;Mauro Mancini ,&nbsp;Martina Huemann","doi":"10.1016/j.plas.2024.100147","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.plas.2024.100147","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":101050,"journal":{"name":"Project Leadership and Society","volume":"5 ","pages":"Article 100147"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666721524000322/pdfft?md5=67f5817f44bb81586351c0321adf7feb&pid=1-s2.0-S2666721524000322-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141952706","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}

{"title":"Social sustainability in action: An explorative study of practices in construction project management","authors":"Hamdi Bashir ,&nbsp;Rana Musa ,&nbsp;Hassan Ahmed Al Zarooni ,&nbsp;Udechukwu Ojiako ,&nbsp;Salah Haridy ,&nbsp;Mohammad Shamsuzzaman","doi":"10.1016/j.plas.2024.100148","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.plas.2024.100148","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The significance of recognizing social sustainability practices for the successful management of projects is increasingly acknowledged. However, to what extent these practices are actually implemented within project management has not been sufficiently addressed in the literature. To address this gap, an empirical study was conducted to investigate the usage of social sustainability practices and explore any disparities in their implementation between domestic and international construction firms in the United Arab Emirates. This study employed a mixed-methods approach, combining interviews and a structured questionnaire. Through the interviews, 32 social sustainability practices were identified. Subsequently, a questionnaire was used to collect data from project managers representing 259 firms. The analysis revealed several key findings: 1) social sustainability practices are adopted at varying rates; 2) twelve practices, primarily concerning fundamental human rights and labor ethics, are uniformly employed by both domestic and international firms; and 3) international firms are more likely than their domestic counterparts to regularly implement the other 20 social sustainability practices. These findings develop new knowledge on the implementation of social sustainability practices and advance the understanding of how firm origin influences the adoption of these practices. Additionally, the findings and their implications provide valuable guidance for policymakers and project leaders looking to incorporate social sustainability practices into their operational strategies.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101050,"journal":{"name":"Project Leadership and Society","volume":"5 ","pages":"Article 100148"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666721524000334/pdfft?md5=da3acc678507d2aff63d02c6d8bd9345&pid=1-s2.0-S2666721524000334-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141963520","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}

{"title":"Distributed leadership and the shaping of infrastructure project portfolios","authors":"Daniel Woodier,&nbsp;Christian Thuesen","doi":"10.1016/j.plas.2024.100146","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.plas.2024.100146","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Important socio-technical changes are increasingly being implemented through major programmes or portfolios of projects (Maylor et al., 2006). These interventions, while necessary for modernisation and the green transition, cause short-term disruption which generates discord and opposition impacting stakeholder perception. The long-term sustainable transformation of rail transportation infrastructure toward electrification, greater speed, digital signalling, creates great benefit in terms of energy and carbon efficiency, reliability, and punctuality, but the short-term disruption caused by the projects can reduce the attractiveness of this mode of transport. This paper reports findings from an embedded case study with the Danish national railway infrastructure owner and analyses how the leadership team uses distributed leadership as a dynamic process of project and portfolio shaping which internalises diverse external perspectives and reconciles competing objectives. Using the “Tesseract” four-dimensional model of project success Ika and Pinto (2022a)to frame these competing interests, this paper presents a model of how distributed leadership shapes the railway project portfolio through the considerations of <em>coherence</em>, <em>disruption,</em> and <em>benefit</em>.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101050,"journal":{"name":"Project Leadership and Society","volume":"5 ","pages":"Article 100146"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666721524000310/pdfft?md5=5a9ad4215a99a30f1a9c6c461b6c3fab&pid=1-s2.0-S2666721524000310-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141841771","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}

{"title":"Emergence of shared leadership in project teams: The role of events","authors":"Marion Karppi ,&nbsp;Heli Aramo-Immonen ,&nbsp;Ursula Hyrkkänen ,&nbsp;Markku Jokisaari","doi":"10.1016/j.plas.2024.100145","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.plas.2024.100145","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The interest in project leadership research has expanded towards shared leadership practices, and shared leadership is a noteworthy alternative for traditional project management approaches. Despite the growing interest in shared leadership, the role of events in the emergence of shared leadership remains unclear. The aim of our research was to identify what kind of events trigger or hinder the emergence of shared leadership in project teams. Our qualitative research data from interviews with 31 project team members was collected in five different organizations. Activity theory was chosen as the analytical tool to explore the events affecting the emergence of shared leadership. We found event chains that trigger and hinder the emergence of shared leadership during the different phases of a project life cycle. Our research contributes to project leadership research by shedding light on the role of events in the emergence of shared leadership.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101050,"journal":{"name":"Project Leadership and Society","volume":"5 ","pages":"Article 100145"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666721524000309/pdfft?md5=0954c1d0071604aee44c2305eec3aa2f&pid=1-s2.0-S2666721524000309-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141844250","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}

{"title":"Green innovation in megaprojects: A capacity-based analysis of the Shenzhong Link Project in China","authors":"Sha Tao ,&nbsp;Xinyi Pang ,&nbsp;Yumin Qiu ,&nbsp;Qingshuang Xu ,&nbsp;Peng Xue","doi":"10.1016/j.plas.2024.100144","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.plas.2024.100144","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Growing environmental challenges and expanding megaprojects have necessitated green transformation of the construction industry. This paper takes the Shenzhong Link Project as an example to explore the capacities required for achieving the goal of green innovation, as well as its micro-expression and behavioral path. We begin with the idea that megaprojects are complex, and then we dissect the capacities from both soft and hard system levels, categorizing them into basic and composite capacities. Then, we form the integration of capacities to realize green innovation of megaprojects. Green development is an essential prerequisite for high-quality megaproject development. Our approach provides a guided study on how to enhance the role of micro-internal drivers in the management of attaining green innovation in megaprojects to help project managers achieve green performance and promote quality development.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101050,"journal":{"name":"Project Leadership and Society","volume":"5 ","pages":"Article 100144"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666721524000292/pdfft?md5=8efd45ec5a1f8978eb8676390093bafb&pid=1-s2.0-S2666721524000292-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141844648","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}