دانلود رایگان مقاله انگلیسی مدیریت پروژه پایدار از طریق کنترل پروژه در پروژه های زیربنایی - الزویر 2017

Abstract

Sustainability is becoming increasingly important in the delivery of projects as stakeholders require ethicality, eco-friendliness, and economic efficiency during a project's life cycle. Previous studies focused on the environmental aspects of sustainability in project deliverables, whereas less attention has been directed at sustainable project management during project delivery. The goal of this study is to identify the control practices that a project organization uses for sustainable project management. A qualitative single-case study was conducted on a large infrastructure project in which a road tunnel was constructed in a highly demanding environment, involving multiple stakeholders in an alliance contract. The results reveal that sustainable project management is implemented using not only indicators but a holistic control package in which control mechanisms are used differently for different sustainability dimensions. Internal project control is complemented with sustainable project governance, linking the project to its external stakeholders and regulations. The alliance contract activates the partners to exploit innovation opportunities and, thus, promotes economic, environmental, and social sustainability.

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Theoretical contributions

This paper contributes to the discussion on sustainable project management, particularly in large infrastructure projects that have long-lasting effects on society. We showed evidence from a road tunnel construction project that took place in a central environmentally and socially sensitive context and had a significant influence on various stakeholders. Complementing the dominant indicator-centric view of sustainable project management, the findings show that a more holistic control package is used in sustainable project management, different control mechanisms are used differently for the different dimensions of sustainability, sustainability control needs to be integrated as part of general project management, and internal project control needs to be complemented with effective project sustainability governance. The findings follow the generally agreed idea of unique control packages in project control, but show the unique configuration of the control package in line with the project's sustainability goals. Where project control literature typically focuses on intra-organizational control or dyadic control relationships, the findings highlight the central role of external control — i.e. need for sustainability governance.