Illustrating Conflicts among Project Stakeholders in Sustainable Project Management

Abstract

This study introduces the backdrop where discrepancies occur among project stakeholders, and then how theoretically this conflicting scenario can be understood. Followed by this, it sums up the research gap in understanding the types of conflicts among project stakeholders leading to the purpose of this study to offer such descriptive typology of conflicts in project management. The study presents the researcher to the reader in terms of view of reality (ontology) and view of knowledge (epistemology) with the adopted inductive approach, descriptive inference and qualitative data type. The default research design of this study is literature review. The study tried to produce the analysis of determining the types of conflicts among project stakeholders discussing them anchored in relevant theories. It finally presents the ultimate typology as the outcome of this research. The ultimate typology of this research consists of three core types of conflicts for the sustainable project management and effective project teams. Depending on the amount of subjectivity in the project teams, project members sense risks and unprecedented scenarios differently giving rise to subjective conflict among ISSN 2326-0297 2017 project stakeholders. Depending on the amount of objectivity in the project teams through organizational systems, processes is another type of objective conflict among project stakeholders. Finally, depending on the inter-organizational project collaboration is the type of triangular conflict among project stakeholders toward sustainable development. Business and Management Horizons