Trust in megaprojects: A comprehensive literature review of research trends

Cerić, Anita; Vukomanović, Mladen; Ivić, Ivona; Kolarić, Sonja

doi:10.1016/j.ijproman.2020.10.007

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“…Megaproject management exhibits more unique characteristics than general project management [3,37]. However, the features of megaproject lifecycles are similar to those of general project lifecycles, including planning, design, development, operation, and maintenance [19,24,29]. Thus, the present literature also studies megaproject management in different lifecycle stages.…”

Section: Overview Of Megaproject Management Researchmentioning

confidence: 91%

“…Due to the rapidly increasing number of publications in a short period of time, it is very difficult to completely understand the meaning and process of such research. On the one hand, although most scholars have reviewed the development process of megaproject management research, including risk [28], trust [29], stakeholders [30], performance [22], and organizational behavior [31], research from such a single perspective restricts the possibility of cross-study and limits a comprehensive understanding of megaproject management research. On the other hand, a few scholars have conducted a comprehensive review [17,32], but the studies are mostly based on bibliographic analysis without deep analysis of the research contents.…”

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Megaproject Management Research: The Status Quo and Future Directions

Yuan

Wang

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Buildings

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Megaproject practices worldwide have triggered increasing research in megaproject management issues and led to an increasing number of papers being published during the last decade. However, it is demonstrated by the literature that there is no systematic examination on research development in the discipline of megaproject management, and consequently it is very difficult for scholars to quickly understand and grasp the research trend. Therefore, a research question naturally comes out, i.e., what is the status quo of megaproject management research and what are the research directions worthy of further investigation? This study aims to answer the question by conducting a systematic examination of the research development in the discipline of megaproject management. A total of 117 relevant articles, identified from six major international journals between 2009 and 2021, were analyzed based on the number of papers published annually, main author contributions, citations, categorization of the research methods and data analysis methods adopted, and research topics covered. The results indicated that developed countries, such as Australia, Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom, have enjoyed significant advantages in terms of megaproject management research. It also revealed that more sophisticated views and theory have been used effectively, rather than only basic qualitative methods, in a number of studies on megaproject management. Future studies on megaproject management will be led globally, where megaprojects will remain designed and built to better built environments. In addition, continuous in-depth research on related topics can promote innovation in megaproject management to achieve sustainable megaproject development. Megaproject management will continue to be a hot research topic in the future; in particular, megaproject investment and finance management have emerged as new challenging topics. The findings can be valuable for both industry practitioners and researchers to gain deeper understanding of the current status and future directions of megaproject management research.

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Section: Overview Of Megaproject Management Researchmentioning

confidence: 91%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Megaproject Management Research: The Status Quo and Future Directions

Yuan

Wang

et al. 2021

Buildings

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“…Despite a profitable economic return, such megaprojects are plagued with uncertainties, difficulties, inefficiencies and failures [20,21]. As one of the typical megaprojects in drylands, for instance, water megaprojects are stated to be inclined toward influencing development, political goals or state power rather than solving water deficiencies [19].…”

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‘Environmental Impact Assessment’ in Drylands: Late Knowledge Penetration or a Deliberate Ignorance for Megaprojects?

Amiraslani

2021

World

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Despite the paramount role of drylands in supporting people’s livelihoods and rendering ecosystem services, legislation on Environmental Impact Assessment has been introduced belatedly after several decades. By exemplifying Iran, the author proposes two main reasons for such a delayed action. First, drylands are misleadingly considered as barren lands where biodiversity is relatively low. In one classification, deserts are even categorized along with rocks. Second, the author emphasizes that drylands have been subjected to unprecedented changes due to the expansion of infrastructure and urbanization that started in the 1970s. These growing pressures have been beyond the ecological resilience of drylands and have not been monitored, assessed, and modified correctly. Further scrutiny regarding EIA undertakings in drylands and the way they can be improved is now needed.

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“…e study of construction project organizational behavior requires a broader systematic perspective. As temporary organizations, construction project organizations can be viewed as complex adaptive organizations, where the behaviors of participants at all levels interact and change dynamically [30]. Principled negotiation and joint cooperative action among participants within the project organizational system can play an important role in mediating conflicts, and interorganizational trust has direct and indirect positive impacts on improving cost performance [31].…”

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Collaborative Evolution Mechanism of PMC Project Organizational Management System from the Perspective of Organizational Conflict

Feng

Zhang

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Mathematical Problems in Engineering

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Limited by traditional construction project management ideas and systems, the implementation of the PMC model in China still has serious problems such as opposition and frequent conflicts. How to reveal the causes of organizational conflicts and explore the key mechanism of the implementation of the PMC model from the system perspective are urgent problems to be solved. Based on the idea of engineering system view, this paper abstracts the PMC project participants with self-organizing characteristics of the organizational management system, in which the internal structure is closely related, and defines the connotation of synergy and synergistic evolution of the PMC project organizational management system. Using the Cucker–Smale model to describe the group movement, the hierarchical system and the acceleration efficiency function of the project legal person’s free will are constructed, and the structure, movement, and development law of the system itself are emphasized to simulate the ordered evolution trend of PMC project organizational management system and reveal the intrinsic causes of conflicts in PMC project and the key mechanisms of the PMC model application. The results show that first, the intensity of information communication between PMC subjects has a significant positive contribution to the orderliness of the organizational management system; second, too much acceleration of the project legal person’s free will causes group chaos in the system, while too little slows down the group stabilization time, which has a negative impact on cost and schedule; third, the more the organizational structure of PMC contractors tends to the whole-process integrated control, the more it can drive the group to gather in an orderly manner and form a synergistic control mode combining self-organization and other organizations; and fourth, the implementation of the PMC model should focus on eliminating the traditional institutional and conceptual barriers, forming a project management model with integrated control of the whole process of the PMC project contractor and effective macro supervision of the project legal person. The research results of this paper revealed the intrinsic causes of conflicts in PMC projects and the key mechanisms of PMC model application; it can help solve the confrontational situation of PMC project participants, promote the development of the PMC model, and give full play to the investment benefits.

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Trust in megaprojects: A comprehensive literature review of research trends

Cited by 51 publications

References 76 publications

Megaproject Management Research: The Status Quo and Future Directions

Megaproject Management Research: The Status Quo and Future Directions

‘Environmental Impact Assessment’ in Drylands: Late Knowledge Penetration or a Deliberate Ignorance for Megaprojects?

Collaborative Evolution Mechanism of PMC Project Organizational Management System from the Perspective of Organizational Conflict

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