Modern Slavery in Projects: A Systematic Literature Review and Research Agenda

Alzoubi, Yazan; Locatelli, Giorgio; Sainati, Tristano

doi:10.1177/87569728221148158

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“…the achievements of SDGs? Famous is the case of modern slavery and death tools in building infrastructure (Alzoubi et al ., 2023). We can also assess to what extent an infrastructure is aligned with the Net-zero transition goal (SDG 13) and consider it a success, depending on its impact on the climate.…”

Section: A Fresh Way To Think About Infrastructure (And Project) Successmentioning

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Yes, construction cost, time and scope are important, but there is more: a new action plan for infrastructure success

Locatelli,

Paravano,

Terenzi

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PurposeDuring the planning and delivery, iron triangle criteria, are essential for internal stakeholders (e.g. owner, sponsors and delivery company), mostly ignoring external stakeholders such as local communities (often perceived as inconvenient) or end users. In the medium-long term, infrastructure cost and benefit are far more important for external stakeholders and the environment.Design/methodology/approachThe iron triangle criteria, i.e. delivering on time, budget and quality/scope, is the traditional perspective to assess the success of infrastructure projects. Delivering on cost and time is significant, but particularly for infrastructure, there are more relevant success criteria. The authors argue which criteria are important, and explain why.FindingsThe authors challenge the traditional view of judging projects based on respecting time, budget and quality/scope. The authors explain that discussing the social value and contribution to achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is extremely relevant. Crucially these metrics keep changing, even after the project is terminated.Originality/valueThe authors provide a new seven-step action plan for decision-makers to improve infrastructure provision by reflecting on SDGs and engaging with external stakeholders, particularly minorities and the weaker members of their communities. Such an action plan is focused on the cost and value for different stakeholders on different timeframes and progress toward social value and achieving SDGs.

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Yes, construction cost, time and scope are important, but there is more: a new action plan for infrastructure success

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“…I believe we have only seen the birth of this broader field of project studies, and important calls for novel research into this area are on the way (see, for instance, Geraldi et al, 2020; Winch et al, 2023). We have only recently begun to uncover what we might learn from closer interactions and analyses of the economics of projects, sociology of projects, and psychology of projects as we have seen in several interesting recently published papers in the Project Management Journal ® (PMJ) (Alzoubi et al, 2023; Barbosa et al, 2022; Farid & Boch Waldorff, 2022; Steen et al, 2022; Troje, 2023).…”

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Seven Insights Into Becoming an Engaged Project Scholar

Söderlund

2023

Project Management Journal

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I was invited to write this editorial as a reflective essay on my research, publications, and related work that led to receiving the PMI Research Achievement Award for 2023.I feel humbled, honored, and thankful. As a way of saying thank you to all the people I have met and worked with over the years, I decided to respond to the invitation and write this essay about what I have learned over these years; why I became a "project scholar"; and what I would like to say to early-stage scholars about starting a career in "project studies" (Geraldi & Söderlund, 2018).First, the notion of project studies is an important one with wide-ranging implications. It moves the study of projects and project management into a broader context, into a conversation with scholars and practitioners that are interested in more than just "management." I believe the idea of project studies very much emerged out of the loosely coupled Scandinavian school of project management research that wanted to move "beyond project management" (Sahlin-Andersson & Söderholm, 2002) and argued for the need for a broad social science approach to capturing contemporary challenges in project society. Of course, the notion of project studies does not mean that project management is unimportant, rather the opposite. It addresses the plurality of contemporary problems that many project managers are facing today; it ignites a broader conversation of the numerous and substantial challenges that we need to address to shape the best projects and implement our projects in a better way.However, the notion of project studies does not only send a message that we need to be mindful about the varying levels of analysis we address (Geraldi & Söderlund, 2016)-we also need to grasp how they interact to create problems, as well as opportunities and solutions to those problems (Sydow et al., 2004). In that regard, among other things, we need to understand how macro developments might have effects on the individual level and how team-level collaborations might create macrolevel changes.The notion of project studies is at the same time an invitation to work and research in even more interdisciplinary ways to emphasize that project-related research is not only a matter for the business school-and the management scholar-it is a matter for the economist, the political scientist, the engineer, the educator, and the psychologist. Project-related research thus needs to be organized in novel ways in new kinds of projects, of course, in better and braver projects, which is natural for any project scholar, but perhaps also in the long run to open up new sorts of permanent institutions that could better address the various challenges of society's projects. This also underlines the need for closer collaborations with practitioners in a wide range of sectors-with ongoing and fertile conversations with regulators, with shapers of projects, with innovators, and with educators. In that respect, it should pave the way for a new kind of engaged scholarship in project studies.Talking about the ...

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