Evolving History of Sustainable Project: Exploring Existential Meaning at the Agency Level

Stakeholder Analysis in the Feasibility Process of Projects: A Structural Evaluation of the Power-Oriented Relationship

“…The results of this research are in relative accordance with Sabini et al's (2019) and Sarhadi et al's (2021) findings on the importance of individual level and behavioral analysis for realizing sustainability. This study, through applying structuration theory, proposed a new philosophical approach to analyzing stakeholder behaviors.…”

A Qualitative Analysis of Unethical Behaviors in Projects: Insight From Moral Psychology

“…Both primary and secondary stakeholders should be involved in both the worldly and spiritual aspects of a project. As illustrated in this article, ethical aspects of stakeholder participation are extensively acknowledged by previous studies (Sarhadi et al, 2018), and the importance of meaning-making, with different interpretations, has been highlighted by some recent studies (Carlsen & Pitsis, 2020;Floris & Cuganesan, 2019;Sarhadi, Hasanzadeh, Yousefi, 2021;Sergeeva & Winch, 2020). Project stakeholders have the potential to perceive the project meaningful at the individual level.…”

“…Furthermore, previous studies have demonstrated that involved stakeholders are not appropriately aware or even skillful enough to protect their benefits in participative processes, especially because of the more complex unethical behavior—termed power-oriented relationship —of more powerful stakeholders as a root cause of many other challenges, such as difficult consensus-building process (Badir et al, 2012; Ng et al, 2012; Wei et al, 2016; Zhang et al, 2013). Power-oriented relationship is defined as a conscious or unconscious application of contextual techniques in complex social interaction to put psychological pressure on others to accept the premade decisions, instead of consensus-based and collective decision-making based on authentic reasons (Sarhadi et al, 2021). One common example is the underestimation of costs and overestimation of benefits in feasibility study reports for getting a project started (Flyvbjerg, 2014).…”

2020 LADR International Workshop, Cyprus

“…The authors attempted to suggest ways to enable successful application of PPP procurement in such cases, by taking mitigation measures at an early stage of the project. Sarhadi et al (2021), after examining the evolving history of sustainable projects, explored sustainability of construction projects at the agency level, arguing that a sustainable project's goals have a great potential to improve at the agency level by motivating stakeholders to go beyond the constraints of profit-based objectives and to take more flexible and consensus-oriented stances.…”