Hamdi Bashir , Rana Musa , Hassan Ahmed Al Zarooni , Udechukwu Ojiako , Salah Haridy , Mohammad Shamsuzzaman
{"title":"Social sustainability in action: An explorative study of practices in construction project management","authors":"Hamdi Bashir , Rana Musa , Hassan Ahmed Al Zarooni , Udechukwu Ojiako , Salah Haridy , 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, 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}
Marion Karppi , Heli Aramo-Immonen , Ursula Hyrkkänen , Markku Jokisaari
{"title":"Emergence of shared leadership in project teams: The role of events","authors":"Marion Karppi , Heli Aramo-Immonen , Ursula Hyrkkänen , 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}
Sha Tao , Xinyi Pang , Yumin Qiu , Qingshuang Xu , Peng Xue
{"title":"Green innovation in megaprojects: A capacity-based analysis of the Shenzhong Link Project in China","authors":"Sha Tao , Xinyi Pang , Yumin Qiu , Qingshuang Xu , 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}
Jiangtao Chi , Yi Huang , Xin Li , Jiaying Li , Zihan Xia , Feiwu Ren , Xiangyun Xu , Jinbo Song , Yanwei Wang
{"title":"Regional differences and dynamic evolution in the resilience of public-private partnership projects: Evidence from the China","authors":"Jiangtao Chi , Yi Huang , Xin Li , Jiaying Li , Zihan Xia , Feiwu Ren , Xiangyun Xu , Jinbo Song , Yanwei Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.plas.2024.100143","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.plas.2024.100143","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In the context of high-quality development and in the face of uncertainties and risks from economic, social and political sources, we aim to understand the resilience of public-private partnership projects in megaprojects, and to improve their ability to effectively manage adversity and optimize resource allocation. And by utilizing these insights and adopting proactive strategies, we enable stakeholders to navigate uncertainty more effectively and contribute effectively to high-quality development. Based on 2005–2020 provincial panel data in China, we explore the regional differences, dynamic evolution and convergence in the resilience of public-private partnership projects using an integrated approach combining entropy weight method, Dagum Gini coefficient, kernel density estimation and spatial econometric modeling. The results of the study show that: The resilience of public-private partnership projects in the nationwide and in East, Central, West and Northeast is steadily increasing, with higher in the East and weaker in the West; The differences between the four regions show a gradual widening trend, but decrease towards the end of the study period, and was accompanied by trailing and polarization across the country and the regions; There is absolute β convergence in the resilience of public-private partnership projects across the country and in the four regions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101050,"journal":{"name":"Project Leadership and Society","volume":"5 ","pages":"Article 100143"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666721524000280/pdfft?md5=e40b006d78b4da8357f20288278a3f57&pid=1-s2.0-S2666721524000280-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141851973","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":"A framework for leadership practices and communication in the context of the construction sector","authors":"Ashok Rehan , David Thorpe , Amirhossein Heravi","doi":"10.1016/j.plas.2024.100142","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.plas.2024.100142","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>An ongoing debate in the leadership domain underscores the prevalence of project failures globally, prompting project managers to refine leadership strategies and create innovative practices to navigate project complexities, emerging technologies, artificial intelligence, evolving stakeholder expectations, shifting construction landscape, and brittle, anxious, nonlinear and incompressible environment challenges in the construction industry. This study aims to provide insights into the relationship mechanisms between leadership practices, communication, and project success, introducing a framework for behavioral practices to address challenges in the Australian construction industry, such as project complexities, inefficiencies, cash flow disruptions, supply chain issues, communication barriers, cultural diversity, digitalization, and regulatory protocols compliance. Exploratory factors/multivariate regression analysis on collected responses on 66 projects have identified four critical success factors: relationship management, communication effectiveness, leading by example, and self-management that impact and improve project success significantly using relationship and conflict management as mediators, help formulate creative practices using stakeholder analysis, conflict resolution strategies, and promoting collaboration enhancing the decision-making process to overcome challenges. Researchers validated and confirmed results through in-depth interviews with independent practitioners, encouraging project managers to modify behavioral practices using an explicit model for enhancing project success.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101050,"journal":{"name":"Project Leadership and Society","volume":"5 ","pages":"Article 100142"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666721524000279/pdfft?md5=f2329d43513651dfa2cf6fc991299498&pid=1-s2.0-S2666721524000279-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141698651","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":"Communication of project risk assessment information through visuals","authors":"Irem Dikmen , Elif Karakocak , M. Talat Birgonul","doi":"10.1016/j.plas.2024.100141","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.plas.2024.100141","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Risk assessment is aimed at providing necessary risk-related information to decision-makers for formulating risk mitigation strategies. Poor communication of its context and outputs may lead to misperceptions and wrong judgements. In this research, the role of visualization as an enabler of better communication of risk assessment information is explored using a design science approach. A questionnaire was carried out with project management professionals using the risk report of a case project to understand challenges in interpretation of risk assessment outputs, information and visualization requirements for making better sense of project risk. Based on the findings from the questionnaire, a visual representation, the Risk Box was developed and further tested by semi-structured interviews. Findings reveal that visuals are not only needed for better understanding of probabilistic information but also the context of risk assessment such as relations between individual risks, risk-prone variables, assumptions, scenarios and mitigation strategies.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101050,"journal":{"name":"Project Leadership and Society","volume":"5 ","pages":"Article 100141"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666721524000267/pdfft?md5=83e315764e50a8227b722f72b7d7ec72&pid=1-s2.0-S2666721524000267-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141689238","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":"Do the Project Manager's soft skills foster knowledge sharing?","authors":"Inês Avença , Luísa Domingues , Helena Carvalho","doi":"10.1016/j.plas.2024.100139","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plas.2024.100139","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In the realm of project management, the significance of soft skills, including communication, leadership, and problem-solving, has been acknowledged as pivotal to project success. Furthermore, the role of knowledge management within projects has emerged as another critical determinant of performance enhancement. This entails disseminating best practices, lessons learned, and insights garnered throughout the project lifecycle. Thus, the Project Manager's role acts as a catalyst, cultivating an environment that promotes effective knowledge sharing.</p><p>The primary objective of this study is to explore the relationship between project manager soft skills and knowledge sharing within project environments. Additionally, considering the acknowledged impact of organizational culture and environment on knowledge sharing practices, this research aims to examine the moderating effect of organizational culture in shaping the relationship between soft skills and knowledge sharing effectiveness within project contexts. A questionnaire involving project team members was conducted to find answers to these questions.</p><p>Findings reveal the project manager leadership was positively associated with knowledge sharing among project management team members. This conclusion innovatively connects the importance of soft skills in fostering knowledge sharing within project teams. It places a significant emphasis on the project manager's leadership skills assigning them a key responsibility. Additionally, moderation analysis showed that knowledge creation and knowledge capture strengthened the relationship between project manager's problem-solving skills and knowledge management environment. This underscores the role of a robust organisational culture in supporting knowledge sharing, thereby enhancing the connection between problem-solving abilities and explicit knowledge sharing.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101050,"journal":{"name":"Project Leadership and Society","volume":"5 ","pages":"Article 100139"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666721524000243/pdfft?md5=62207750eddacc550f0712f2510c0e2c&pid=1-s2.0-S2666721524000243-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141594324","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 fundamentals of boosting high-quality development by megaprojects: A systematic literature review","authors":"Ying Han, Qing Yang, Pingye Tian","doi":"10.1016/j.plas.2024.100140","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plas.2024.100140","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>High-quality development is a new concept to promote social and economic development initiated by China in 2017, which originates from sustainable development but is more comprehensive. Using the systematic literature review method, this paper explores the evolution, core aspects and role of megaprojects in boosting high-quality development. Firstly, by building keyword co-occurrence networks, this paper discusses the evolution and core topics of megaproject management research from three dimensions: time, research field, and region. Secondly, this paper develops a theoretical model outlining the fundamentals of boosting high-quality development by megaprojects, which contains five aspects of high-quality development (i.e., economy, society, environment, innovation and safety). Further, we propose a value assessment framework of boosting high-quality development by megaprojects, which accounting for the megaprojects’ life cycle process and deliverables. Finally, this paper discusses future trends of megaprojects boosting high-quality development. By examining these key fields, the paper offers valuable insights into the transformative potential of megaprojects in boosting high-quality development and their practical implications.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101050,"journal":{"name":"Project Leadership and Society","volume":"5 ","pages":"Article 100140"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666721524000255/pdfft?md5=c6df987a7d411f7953eb542a7589febb&pid=1-s2.0-S2666721524000255-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141539334","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}