What about the people? Micro-foundations of open innovation in megaprojects

Locatelli, Giorgio; Greco, Marco; Invernizzi, Diletta Colette; Grimaldi, Michele; Malizia, Stefania

doi:10.1016/j.ijproman.2020.06.009

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“…According to Worsnop et al (2016), megaprojects represented an ideal context for fostering innovation because of their complexity and involvement of many participants. Similarly, Locatelli et al (2021) considered innovation an effective method to solve technological problems and improve project performance in megaprojects.…”

Section: Collaborative Innovation In Megaprojectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Researchers pay considerable attention to what drives stakeholders to adopt collaborative innovation, using rubrics such as motivations, drivers, and stimuli (see Bossle et al, 2016;Hojnik & Ruzzier, 2016;Li-Ying et al, 2018). Consistent with other innovations (e.g., open innovation, cooperative innovation), stakeholders adopt collaborative innovation mainly in response to intrinsic demands and extrinsic requirements (Battistella & Nonino, 2013;Locatelli et al, 2017Locatelli et al, , 2021.…”

Section: Drivers Of Collaborative Innovationmentioning

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“…However, it still ranks third in all 18 variables. Compared with general infrastructure projects, megaprojects contain several technological/managerial problems that are more complex and cannot be solved by traditional methods and existing knowledge possessed by only a single stakeholder (Davies et al, 2009;Locatelli et al, 2021). Tight collaboration among stakeholders has become a useful tool to deal with these problems in megaprojects.…”

Section: Responding To Project and Clients' Requirementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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What Motivates Stakeholders to Engage in Collaborative Innovation in the Infrastructure Megaprojects?

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Journal of Civil Engineering and Management

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Collaborative innovation has become an innovation paradigm to improve innovation performance and firms’ economic output. However, there is relatively little research investigating stakeholders’ drivers for engaging in collaborative innovation and the relative importance of drivers in infrastructure megaprojects. This research aims to address this gap by identifying the drivers for collaborative innovation and their relative importance in the context of infrastructure megaprojects. We adopt the literature review and questionnaire survey methods to identify drivers, the Relative Importance Index to rank them, and exploratory factor analysis to group them. The results show that 18 drivers are grouped into 6 dimensions. Their rankings are as follows: responding to project and clients’ requirements, improving efficiency, gaining rewards, learning, responding to competition, responding to environmental changes. The research contributes to stakeholders’ drivers to engage in collaborative innovation and the relative importance of drivers in the context of infrastructure megaprojects. Identifying and prioritizing stakeholders’ drivers can provide practitioners with suggestions on managing the collaborative innovation process in infrastructure megaprojects.

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What Motivates Stakeholders to Engage in Collaborative Innovation in the Infrastructure Megaprojects?

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“…This may represent a limitation of importing such a theory into complex project settings. Third, future research could consider the microfoundations view [76], [77], which provides a comprehensive framework for understanding the role of individuals along with process and organizational structures. Fourth, follow up research could focus on robustness analysis [78] and hindcasting.…”

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Talking About Futureproofing: Real Options Reasoning in Complex Infrastructure Projects

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2022

IEEE Trans. Eng. Manage.

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Complex infrastructure projects often attract criticism regarding their short-and long-term performance. An effective development process requires thinking about both present and future requirements. We employed the lens of real options reasoning to investigate the power of verbal theorizing, without the aid of analytical modeling, to add flexibility in the development process. Drawing on 32 semi-structured interviews with decision-makers involved in health estate projects, we examined if and how informal talks in the development process can lead to futureproof outcomes. Our findings synthesize and conceptualize relevant insights on iterative design thinking, affordability, bounded rationality, and motivational gaps as causal mechanisms for futureproofing talks and thus real options reasoning. The paper contributes to the planning and project studies literature dealing with futureproofing complex infrastructure projects.

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“…It can avoid the impalpable and arbitrary result. Therefore, the analysis showed that the identified papers could be categorized into five clusters: megaproject management in general [29,[116][117][118][119], megaproject sustainability [27,34,[120][121][122][123], megaproject governance [22,[124][125][126][127][128][129], megaproject investment and finance [44,48,92,[130][131][132], and megaproject risk management [95,112,[133][134][135][136]. When the topic of a paper was related to multiple clusters, the paper was classified into the most closely related cluster.…”

Section: Research Topics Of the Identified Papers In Megaproject Management Researchmentioning

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Megaproject Management Research: The Status Quo and Future Directions

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Wang

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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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What about the people? Micro-foundations of open innovation in megaprojects

Cited by 45 publications

References 122 publications

What Motivates Stakeholders to Engage in Collaborative Innovation in the Infrastructure Megaprojects?

What Motivates Stakeholders to Engage in Collaborative Innovation in the Infrastructure Megaprojects?

Talking About Futureproofing: Real Options Reasoning in Complex Infrastructure Projects

Megaproject Management Research: The Status Quo and Future Directions

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