Skeptical stakeholder involvement–collaborating with stakeholders who may harbor
negative attitudes-is a complex, uncertain process that poses substantial challenges for …

This paper combines insights from complexity and resilience research with a process view of
project organizations to advance our understanding of project resilience. We propose the …

This paper aims to disentangle the processes of sha** the symbolism of megaprojects
and their influence on stakeholders' engagement. We define symbolism as the aura of …

This paper adopts a processual perspective to understand how multiple crises evolve and
interact in projects. After reviewing the literature on crises in projects and finding that it …

The pressure to complete Infrastructure Megaprojects (IMs) is enormous; once started, IMs
are commonly considered too costly to be stopped. Still, despite this widespread belief …

The “trillion-dollar era” of megaprojects has increased the demand for the scope of mega
infrastructure. To address the requirement for high-quality “investment, construction, and …

Project management theory often reduces development to a simplistic and smooth process
of consultation leading to a consensual set of requirements. However, in large public …

The involvement of stakeholders in large scale urban sustainable development projects
(LSUSDP. s) has proven difficult. The stakeholders are distributed across the geographical …

Worldwide, there are numerous reports of major infrastructure projects failing at handover to
the operations phase following completion of the project development and delivery phase …

The aim of this conceptual paper is to contribute to a better understanding of the front-end
phase of large public projects, which is complex and non-linear. The point of departure …