Critical success factors for Malaysian construction projects: an empirical assessment

Analysis of Critical Success Factors Influence on Critical Delays for Water Infrastructure Construction Projects in the Abu Dhabi emirate Using PLS-SEM Method

“…Tabish and Jha (2012) investigated important factors for success of construction projects pertains to public sector in India, the success factors resulted from this study were categorized into generic and specific natures, findings for generic type were: owners requirements need thorough understanding and precise definition, a high level of trust among the project bodies participants, on time and helpful decision from higher management, availability of all required resources as planned during all execution phases of project, top management's support, and consistent monitoring and feedback by higher management, while success factors of particular character were: thorough understanding of project manager and contractor on their part scope, comprehensive and thorough investigation of the project site in the pretender stage, regular and periodic monitoring and feedback by the owner representative, avoid bureaucratic interference, absent of social and political interferences , well identified and clear threaded scope of work, quality control and quality assurance activities, and adequate communication among all project participants. Mustaffa and Yong (2013) evaluated the severity-identified factors on construction project success distributed to clients, consultants and contractors. Their study identified fifteen (15) factors to be accepted as a critical to the success of construction projects and suggested a strong consistency in perception between respondents in recognizing the significance of human-related factors such as competence, commitment, communication and cooperation towards the success of a construction project.…”

“…Other body of research studied the effect that different stakeholders may have on the project outcome; i.e. commitment, team capabilities, project manager capabilities and commitment (Mustaffa & Yong, 2013;Babu, 2015;Cserhá ti & Szabó, 2014). Some researchers studied the project management techniques and the effect of team members, team motivation and personnel selection and training (Banihashemi, Hosseini, Golizadeh & Sankaran, 2017;Amade, Ubani, Omajeh & Njoku, 2015;Gunduz & Yahya, 2015;Zou, Kumaraswamy, Chung & Wong, 2014;Wibowo & Alfen, 2014).…”

“…Some researchers studied the project management techniques and the effect of team members, team motivation and personnel selection and training (Banihashemi, Hosseini, Golizadeh & Sankaran, 2017;Amade, Ubani, Omajeh & Njoku, 2015;Gunduz & Yahya, 2015;Zou, Kumaraswamy, Chung & Wong, 2014;Wibowo & Alfen, 2014). Others investigated the impact of so skills such as communication between different stakeholders, or external factors that might affect the project success, such as political conflict and corruption, rough climate characters and environment, unexpected conditions (Babu, 2015;Zavadskas, Vilutiene, Turskis & Saparauskas, 2014;Ihuah, Tippett & Eaton, 2014;Shehu, Endut, Akintoye and Holt, 2014;Marzouk & El -Rasas, 2014;Wibowo and Alfen, 2014;Gudienė, Banaitisa, Banaitienėa & Lopesb, 2013;Yong & Mustaffa, 2013;Gudienė et al, 2014).…”

“…In addition to the critical success factors that have been identified in the literature, the impact of two other moderate factors has been investigated, Project Benchmark Characteristics (PBC) and Project External Environments (PEE), which are believed to affect the relationship between the critical success factors and project critical delays (Park, 2009;Tan & Ghazali, 2011;Yang, Huang & Wu, 2011;LI, Arditi & Wang, 2012;Gudienė et al, 2013;Yong & Mustaffa, 2013;Gudienė et al, 2014). In the available literature, project Benchmark characteristics and project external environments have long been disregarded as being critical success factors; however, many construction projects witnessed status of failure due to problems within projects (Thi and Swierczek, 2010).…”

“…However, according to Jin et al (2012), some of these externals influence the construction project at all phases of the project life cycle, such as weather conditions or the social environment. According to some researchers, these factors sometimes, have a considerable impact that they resulted in project termination at the construction stage (Jin et al, 2012;Yong and Mustaffa, 2013;Zhao et al, 2013;Gudienė et al, 2014).…”