Grasping project complexity in large engineering projects: The TOE (Technical, Organizational and Environmental) framework

Revitalising energy capital project development and execution strategies: lessons from the energy sector

“…For energy contractors this means managing a portfolio of complex projects. The issue of dealing with complexity is the prime focus in today's energy organisations (McComb et al, 2008;Rekveldt 2011).…”

“…As mentioned earlier on, new novel approaches to delivery and management of energy capital projects are needed to deal with specific environmental, operational, technical, economic and physical challenges (Mckenna et al 2006). Failure to address these challenges will significantly encumber the industry's ability to deliver complex ventures in an efficient and effective way (Flybjerg, 2014;Rekveldt et al, 2011). It is worth noting that, major energy capital schemes carry a high risk and require a good understanding of the five challenges and capable management.…”

“…An extensive literature reviewed highlighted that 'capital project' and 'large capital investments' are often imprecisely used terms that have diverse range of meanings (Flybjerg, 2014;Ochieng et al, 2013;Rekveldt et al, 2011), with very few studies done on its role in energy project management. It is apparent that both terms refer to any scheme which requires the use of notable amounts of capital, both financial and labour, to undertake and complete.…”

House of Project Complexity—understanding complexity in large infrastructure projects

“…Uncertainty is reflected in the form of 'risk' in all three domains, whereas contextual factors such as 'stakeholders' and project 'location' are categorized in the Environmental domain. This last category is the main extension of the TOE model over previous frameworks (Bosch-Rekveldt et al, 2011).…”

Identifying the most critical project complexity factors using Delphi method: the Iranian construction industry

“…More specifically, they studied how distance-based education in project management could facilitate a learning community, which collaboratively questions existing theory and practice and developed innovative approaches as well as caters to the requirements of project management practitioners for extensive learning opportunities within a flexible learning environment. Bosch-Rekveldt et al (2011), in another survey, presented a model for characterizing project complexity in large engineering projects, which could be implemented to adapt the front-end development phase of engineering projects to the specific complexity. They explained that a big portion of previous studies demonstrated that "complexity" was an important issue in current project management research.…”