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Xie, Linlin, Tianhao Ju, and Bo Xia. "Institutional Pressures and Megaproject Social Responsibility Behavior: A Conditional Process Model." Buildings 11, no. 4 (March 31, 2021): 140. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/buildings11040140.

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Megaproject social responsibility (MSR) is a critical factor regarding the sustainable delivery of megaprojects and MSR behavior to implement MSR. However, the questions of which factors effectively promote MSR behavior and how these factors work remain underexamined. Thus, this study aims to examine how the external institutional pressure and internal factors composed of relational behavior and pure altruistic values affect MSR behavior. On the basis of a conditional process analysis conducted on a set of survey data from various organizations involved in megaprojects in China, the results revealed that the higher the degree of mimetic pressure, the higher the degree of MSR behavior. Concurrently, relational behavior mediates the relationship between normative pressures and MSR behavior. Relational behavior also drives MSR behavior, and pure altruistic values moderate the relationships between institutional pressures and MSR behavior. These findings also provide practical suggestions for policymakers on the implementation and governance of MSR.

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Wu, Guangdong, Huiwen Li, Chunlin Wu, and Zhibin Hu. "How different strengths of ties impact project performance in megaprojects: the mediating role of trust." International Journal of Managing Projects in Business 13, no. 4 (April 11, 2020): 889–912. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijmpb-09-2019-0220.

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PurposeThis study aims to investigate the relationships between the different strengths of ties (strong ties and weak ties), types of trust and project performance in megaprojects.Design/methodology/approachA questionnaire survey was conducted with various experts and professionals involved in megaprojects, and 350 valid responses were received. Data was analyzed by means of structural equation modeling.FindingsThe results show that both strong ties and weak ties have positive impacts on trust in megaprojects, but weak ties have a more significant positive effect than do strong ties. Unexpectedly, the introduction of interorganizational trust significantly weakens the effect of the strength of ties on project performance. The indirect influence of the strength of ties on performance has different paths. Weak ties have an indirect effect via calculative trust and relational trust. However, in a strong ties network, inferior stakeholders lack the information necessary to complete a megaproject, and they believe that calculative trust will not promote project performance until the megaproject is successfully delivered. Thus, the effect of calculative trust on project performance is not significant.Research limitations/implicationsThese findings provide evidence in regard to strength of ties governance being a part of the effective strategy in improving megaprojects’ performance. It also demonstrates the mediating function of trust and advances the current understandings of the underlying mechanism of the strength of ties on project performance, thus providing implications for researchers and practitioners. However, this study has some limitations. For example, the strength of ties and trust between organizations are a dynamic process in megaprojects. This study does not conduct in-depth analysis of the evolution mechanism and investigate the different levels of trust at different stages of the megaproject. Future research can be guided by these directions.Originality/valueThe main contribution of this study is fourfold. First, this study enriches the literature on strength of ties by accentuating the roles of trust in megaproject context. Second, this study contributes to the theoretical development of a conceptual model for explaining the interrelationships among strength of ties, types of trust and project performance. Third, this study responds to the call “which dimension (i.e. strong ties or weak ties) is more influential” by exploring the direct and indirect effects of strength of ties on project performance. Finally, this study breaks through the limitation of traditional cognition that megaproject management can be met by relying on rigid contracts. In other words, trust can supplement the weakness of rigid contract by forming contract flexibility with different strength of ties. Meanwhile, the specific strategies to establish and maintain trust are given, such as building information model (BIM) collaboration platform and reputation management mechanism.

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Wang, Dedong, Hui Li, and Yongqiang Lu. "Factors affecting transaction costs in megaprojects: a qualitative comparative analysis." International Journal of Managing Projects in Business 14, no. 6 (April 2, 2021): 1245–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijmpb-08-2020-0267.

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PurposeThe purpose of this study is to examine the factors influencing the transaction costs (TCs) in megaprojects to provide a basis for controlling project costs.Design/methodology/approachThis study selects six factors influencing the TCs in megaprojects from the perspective of TC theory and relational contract theory (RCT) through literature review. On the basis of crisp-set qualitative comparative analysis (QCA), this study tests combined factors influencing the TCs and the interaction between them.FindingsResults show that in megaprojects, TCs are affected by combination factors. The combination of asset specificity, uncertainty, transaction frequency and trust and the combination of asset specificity, reputation and trust will control TCs in certain situations. In the configuration leading to high project TCs, the combination of environmental and behavioral uncertainties is a necessary condition.Originality/valueThis paper fills up the research gap in the field of megaproject TCs, and researchers can focus on this field in the future.

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Xue, Jin, Geoffrey Qiping Shen, Rebecca Jing Yang, Irfan Zafar, E. M. A. C. Ekanayake, Xue Lin, and Amos Darko. "Influence of formal and informal stakeholder relationship on megaproject performance: a case of China." Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management 27, no. 7 (May 12, 2020): 1505–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ecam-07-2019-0353.

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PurposeThe purpose of this research is to seek better relational strategies between formal and informal stakeholder relationships to improve megaproject performance.Design/methodology/approachThe conceptual model was developed with twenty hypotheses based on the literature review. Then a questionnaire survey was conducted, and the collected data were analyzed by Partial Least squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) for validating the proposed model. Finally, the findings were discussed by a comparative study to explain the different effects of the formal and informal relationship on megaproject performance, and the managerial implications are presented for the stakeholders to implement the relationship management in the megaprojects.FindingsThe research finding reveals that formal relationship plays a dominating role in cost, quality, and labor protection; meanwhile, it is still more reliable in improving coordination, safety and environmental protection. Both formal and informal relationship is equally important towards collaboration and scheduling while the informal relationship is more effective in communication and project transparency.Originality/valueThe study extends the knowledge of relationship management in the domain of the megaproject performance. It provides a comprehensive and systematic understanding of the impact of formal and informal stakeholder relationships on ten aspects of the megaproject performance by the proposed conceptual model and PLS-SEM results. The research findings contribute to the theory of relationship management on how the different influences between formal and informal stakeholder relationships lead to better megaproject performance from inter-organizational level to project and societal level.

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Wang, Dedong, Hongwei Fu, and Shaoze Fang. "The Relationship Between Relational Quality and Megaproject Success: The Moderating Role of Incentives." Engineering Management Journal 31, no. 4 (July 11, 2019): 257–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10429247.2019.1624099.

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Wang, Dedong, Yongqiang Lu, and Shaoze Fang. "Connection between Relationship Quality and Megaproject Success: Moderating Role of Contractual Functions." Advances in Civil Engineering 2019 (June 25, 2019): 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/5803687.

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Relational governance is critical to project success. The present study on relational governance fails to elaborate on the relation between relationship quality and project success. In line with social exchange theory, this paper presents an empirical research of Chinese megaprojects to explore the effect of social exchange factors on relationship quality. Particularly, this research investigated how mianzi (face) as a factor variable affects relationship quality in megaprojects. This work also divided contract functions into control, coordination, and adaptation to investigate the impact of these functions on the relationship between social exchange factors and mianzi (face) with relationship quality. Results corroborate the following points: (1) relationship quality has a significant effect on project success; (2) relationship quality is also significantly influenced by trust, reciprocity, commitment, and mianzi; and (3) regarding the moderating effects of contractual functions, the contractual control function has a positive influence on the relationship between trust, commitment, and relationship quality and has a negative influence on the relationship between mianzi and relationship quality. However, contractual control has no apparent effect on the relationship between reciprocity and relationship quality. The contractual coordination function has a positive effect on the relationship between trust, commitment, and relationship quality. The contractual adaptation function has a significant positive effect on the relationship between trust and relationship quality. These findings provide new insights into relationship governance, and suggestions for contractual function design are provided.

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Zhai, Zhao, Ming Shan, Amos Darko, and Yun Le. "Visualizing the Knowledge Domain of Project Governance: A Scientometric Review." Advances in Civil Engineering 2020 (February 19, 2020): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/6813043.

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Over the past two decades, project governance has attracted increasing attention from researchers and practitioners worldwide and has become an important research area of project management. However, an inclusive quantitative and systematic analysis of the state-of-the-art recently available research in this field is still missing. This study attempts to map the global research on project governance through a state-of-the-art review. A total of 285 bibliographic records were retrieved from the Web of Science Core Collection database and analyzed by the visual analytic tool—CiteSpace. The results indicated that there has been an increasing research interest in project governance. The most productive and the most highly cited author in the area of project governance is Müller R., and most of the existing project governance research achievements are from Australia, China, USA, and Norway. By synthetically analyzing the keywords, future research might focus on governance of megaprojects and project success. Additionally, 9 knowledge domains of project governance were identified, including conceptual framework, public projects, governance structure, governance context, megaproject governance, contractual and relational governance, sustainability, portfolio governance, and project success. This study contributes to the body of knowledge by mapping the existing project governance research. It is particularly helpful to new and early-stage researchers who plan to do research on project governance, as it can provide them an overview of project governance research, including key authors, main institutions, hot topics, and knowledge domains. Moreover, the findings from the study are beneficial to industry practitioners as well, as they can help industry practitioners understand the latest development of governance theory and practice and thereby help them locate the best governance strategies for project management.

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Batmanova, V., A. Zhukov, I. Mitrofanova, and I. Mitrofanova. "Russian and US Experience of Territorial Megaprojects." World Economy and International Relations, no. 2 (2015): 23–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.20542/0131-2227-2015-2-23-33.

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Phenomenon of the megaprojects as an instrument for the development of territories has not been studied thoroughly by the national economic science. There is lack of integrated, comparative analysis of the creation and the realization of territorial megaprojects in Russia and other countries. Authors of the article have set the goal to fill in this gap. A large scale investment project can obtain the status of the megaproject if it is characterized by a complicated character, high costs, systematic character and relevance of the realized targets. In the modern Russia the reconstruction of the historic territorial megaprojects and the realization of new ones as a relevant tool of the strategic territorial management is becoming the manifestation of contemporary institutional, organizational and informational transformations of the economic space of the global economic system. In contrast to financial investments, megaprojects are oriented on a real material result, having a considerable prolonged impact on the economic space. The authors regard infrastructural megaprojects construction of Transsib and BAM. The reasons of their achievements and failures are studies. The sustainable development of the regions of the Far East and Zabaikalye, the solution of important federal and regional tasks in the use of the resource, industrial and transit potential of the East of the country is connected mainly with the realization of the integrated infrastructural project of BAM’s and Transsib’s reconstruction. The article reveals the plans of the Government of the Russian Federation concerning the modernization of these megaprojects that will increase the capacity of BAM and Transsib by the year 2020 up to 75 million tons a year. The life cycle of the modern megaproject "Ural Industiral – Ural Polar" is revealed. The project was directed at the formation of a new economic skeleton in the Ural Federal District and creation of the prerequisites for the development of its problematic regions. Authors come to conclusion that this megaproject actually failed. It downgraded from a strategically important one into a conglomerate of local investment projects that are not interconnected by a single basic conception. Inevitably, this undermined its complex integration effect. The Olympic project “Sochi 2014” highlights the problem of post-project utilization of objects of territorial megaprojects. Only a few of them can immediately serve as drivers of regional economic complex. Others mostly generate losses. A set of policies and special measures of the regional authorities is needed to turn them profitable. The article also touches upon the American experience of megaprojects of the territorial development (Tennessee Valley Authority, Appalachian Regional Commission). Authors insist that analysis of the American experience can help the modernization of the strategic territorial management in Russia.

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Zheng, Xian, Yujie Lu, Yun Le, Yongkui Li, and Jun Fang. "Formation of Interorganizational Relational Behavior in Megaprojects: Perspective of the Extended Theory of Planned Behavior." Journal of Management in Engineering 34, no. 1 (January 2018): 04017052. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(asce)me.1943-5479.0000560.

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Brockmann, Christian, Horst Brezinski, and Anita Erbe. "Innovation in Construction Megaprojects." Journal of Construction Engineering and Management 142, no. 11 (November 2016): 04016059. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(asce)co.1943-7862.0001168.

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Kumaraswamy, Mohan M. "Appropriate Appraisal and Apportionment of Megaproject Risks." Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice 123, no. 2 (April 1997): 51–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(asce)1052-3928(1997)123:2(51).

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Zhu, Liuying, Sai On Cheung, Xinglin Gao, Qian Li, and Gang Liu. "Success DNA of a Record-Breaking Megaproject." Journal of Construction Engineering and Management 146, no. 8 (August 2020): 05020009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(asce)co.1943-7862.0001878.

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Wang, Xiangyu, Heap-Yih Chong, and Young Hoon Kwak. "Supply Chain Management in Megaprojects." Journal of Management in Engineering 33, no. 4 (July 2017): 02017001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(asce)me.1943-5479.0000516.

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Yang, Delei, Qinghua He, Qingbin Cui, and Shu-Chien Hsu. "Organizational Citizenship Behavior in Construction Megaprojects." Journal of Management in Engineering 34, no. 4 (July 2018): 04018017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(asce)me.1943-5479.0000614.

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Lu, Yujie, Yongkui Li, and Qingbin Cui. "Organizational Behavior and Governance of Megaprojects." Journal of Management in Engineering 36, no. 3 (May 2020): 02020001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(asce)me.1943-5479.0000768.

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Fairbanks, Luke, Noëlle Boucquey, Lisa M. Campbell, and Sarah Wise. "Remaking Oceans Governance." Environment and Society 10, no. 1 (September 1, 2019): 122–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/ares.2019.100108.

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Marine spatial planning (MSP) seeks to integrate traditionally disconnected oceans activities, management arrangements, and practices through a rational and comprehensive governance system. This article explores the emerging critical literature on MSP, focusing on key elements of MSP engaged by scholars: (1) planning discourse and narrative; (2) ocean economies and equity; (3) online ocean data and new digital ontologies; and (4) new and broad networks of ocean actors. The implications of these elements are then illustrated through a discussion of MSP in the United States. Critical scholars are beginning to go beyond applied or operational critiques of MSP projects to engage the underlying assumptions, practices, and relationships involved in planning. Interrogating MSP with interdisciplinary ideas drawn from critical social science disciplines, such as emerging applications of relational theory at sea, can provide insights into how MSP and other megaprojects both close and open new opportunities for social and environmental well-being.

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Akaev, A. A., and V. A. Sadovnichii. "The Mathematical Dimension of the One Belt One Road Megaproject." Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences 88, no. 4 (July 2018): 243–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1134/s1019331618040019.

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Swanson, Richard, and Vivek Sakhrani. "Appropriating the Value of Flexibility in PPP Megaproject Design." Journal of Management in Engineering 36, no. 5 (September 2020): 05020010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(asce)me.1943-5479.0000770.

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Cheung, Sai On, and Lu Shen. "Concentration Analysis to Measure Competition in Megaprojects." Journal of Management in Engineering 33, no. 1 (January 2017): 04016023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(asce)me.1943-5479.0000464.

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Kian Manesh Rad, Ehsan, Ming Sun, and Frédéric Bosché. "Complexity for Megaprojects in the Energy Sector." Journal of Management in Engineering 33, no. 4 (July 2017): 04017009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(asce)me.1943-5479.0000517.

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Molenaar, Keith R. "Programmatic Cost Risk Analysis for Highway Megaprojects." Journal of Construction Engineering and Management 131, no. 3 (March 2005): 343–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(asce)0733-9364(2005)131:3(343).

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Lu, Yujie, Bo Liu, and Yongkui Li. "Collaboration Networks and Bidding Competitiveness in Megaprojects." Journal of Management in Engineering 37, no. 6 (November 2021): 04021064. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(asce)me.1943-5479.0000961.

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Hu, Yi, Albert P. C. Chan, Yun Le, and Run-zhi Jin. "From Construction Megaproject Management to Complex Project Management: Bibliographic Analysis." Journal of Management in Engineering 31, no. 4 (July 2015): 04014052. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(asce)me.1943-5479.0000254.

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Kumaraswamy, Mohan M., and David A. Morris. "Build-Operate-Transfer-Type Procurement in Asian Megaprojects." Journal of Construction Engineering and Management 128, no. 2 (April 2002): 93–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(asce)0733-9364(2002)128:2(93).

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Lin, Han, Yue Sui, Hanyang Ma, Liangyan Wang, and Saixing Zeng. "CEO Narcissism, Public Concern, and Megaproject Social Responsibility: Moderated Mediating Examination." Journal of Management in Engineering 34, no. 4 (July 2018): 04018018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(asce)me.1943-5479.0000629.

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Bush, Ray. "Globalised authoritarianism: megaprojects, slums, and class relations in urban Morocco." Review of African Political Economy 47, no. 166 (October 1, 2020): 688–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03056244.2020.1826198.

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Olaniran, O. J., P. E. D. Love, D. J. Edwards, O. Olatunji, and J. Matthews. "Chaos Theory: Implications for Cost Overrun Research in Hydrocarbon Megaprojects." Journal of Construction Engineering and Management 143, no. 2 (February 2017): 05016020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(asce)co.1943-7862.0001227.

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Bahadorestani, Amir, Jan Terje Karlsen, and Nasser Motahari Farimani. "Novel Approach to Satisfying Stakeholders in Megaprojects: Balancing Mutual Values." Journal of Management in Engineering 36, no. 2 (March 2020): 04019047. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(asce)me.1943-5479.0000734.

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Hosseini, M. Reza, Saeed Banihashemi, Igor Martek, Hamed Golizadeh, and Farzad Ghodoosi. "Sustainable Delivery of Megaprojects in Iran: Integrated Model of Contextual Factors." Journal of Management in Engineering 34, no. 2 (March 2018): 05017011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(asce)me.1943-5479.0000587.

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Li, Yongkui, Yujie Lu, Qingbin Cui, and Yilong Han. "Organizational Behavior in Megaprojects: Integrative Review and Directions for Future Research." Journal of Management in Engineering 35, no. 4 (July 2019): 04019009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(asce)me.1943-5479.0000691.

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Zhou, Zhipeng, Xingnan Zhou, and Lingfei Qian. "Online Public Opinion Analysis on Infrastructure Megaprojects: Toward an Analytical Framework." Journal of Management in Engineering 37, no. 1 (January 2021): 04020105. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(asce)me.1943-5479.0000874.

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Owolabi, Hakeem A., Lukumon O. Oyedele, Hafiz A. Alaka, Saheed O. Ajayi, Olugbenga O. Akinade, and Muhammad Bilal. "Critical Success Factors for Ensuring Bankable Completion Risk in PFI/PPP Megaprojects." Journal of Management in Engineering 36, no. 1 (January 2020): 04019032. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(asce)me.1943-5479.0000717.

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Lee, Cen-Ying, and Heap-Yih Chong. "Influence of Prior Ties on Trust and Contract Functions for BIM-Enabled EPC Megaproject Performance." Journal of Construction Engineering and Management 147, no. 7 (July 2021): 04021057. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(asce)co.1943-7862.0002076.

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Terrefe, Biruk. "Urban layers of political rupture: the ‘new’ politics of Addis Ababa’s megaprojects." Journal of Eastern African Studies 14, no. 3 (June 4, 2020): 375–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2020.1774705.

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Wu, Lufeng, Guangshe Jia, and Nikhaphone Mackhaphonh. "Case Study on Improving the Effectiveness of Public Participation in Public Infrastructure Megaprojects." Journal of Construction Engineering and Management 145, no. 4 (April 2019): 05019003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(asce)co.1943-7862.0001623.

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Li, Yongkui, Yilong Han, Mingxian Luo, and Yan Zhang. "Impact of Megaproject Governance on Project Performance: Dynamic Governance of the Nanning Transportation Hub in China." Journal of Management in Engineering 35, no. 3 (May 2019): 05019002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(asce)me.1943-5479.0000681.

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Macfarlane, Daniel. "Environmental nationalist: Andrew McNaughton and Canada–US relations in the Cold War." International Journal: Canada's Journal of Global Policy Analysis 76, no. 1 (February 22, 2021): 129–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0020702021994513.

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Prior to 1945, General Andrew George Latta McNaughton had already made a name for himself as an army general, engineer, inventor, and cabinet minister. After 1945, McNaughton occupied a number of key international roles for Canada: at the United Nations, on the Permanent Joint Board on Defence, and on the International Joint Commission. Even though he became one of Canada’s most important diplomatic actors during the early Cold War period, this aspect of his career has been mostly ignored by international historians. This article examines McNaughton’s key involvement in the evolution of a number of Canada–US water megaprojects, arguing that his nationalism underpinned his approach to bilateral relations, which combined deep technical expertise with a willingness to publicly assert the Canadian national interest. McNaughton’s approach should be studied not only to better understand North American environmental diplomacy in the Cold War but also to draw from it several lessons for contemporary times.

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Isaacman, Allen. "Cahora Bassa Dam & the Delusion of Development." Daedalus 150, no. 4 (2021): 103–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/daed_a_01875.

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Abstract On December 6, 1974, two pressure-driven steel gates of the Cahora Bassa Dam, each weighing 220 tons, stopped the mighty Zambezi River in its course. After five years of toil by more than five thousand workers, the construction of Mozambique's Cahora Bassa was complete. At the time, it was the fifth-largest dam in the world. The hydroelectric dam was the last megaproject constructed in Africa during the turbulent era of decolonization. Through the voices of peasants and fishermen, displaced by the dam and the workers who built it, this essay analyzes the far-reaching social, political, and ecological consequences of Cahora Bassa. It also explores the devastating impact on riparian life downriver from the dam, which dramatically reduced the annual inundation of the floodplain that supported hundreds of thousands of farmers as well as fish, birds, and mammals.

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Hu, Yi, Albert P. C. Chan, and Yun Le. "Understanding the Determinants of Program Organization for Construction Megaproject Success: Case Study of the Shanghai Expo Construction." Journal of Management in Engineering 31, no. 5 (September 2015): 05014019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(asce)me.1943-5479.0000310.

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Wang, Ge, Qinghua He, Bo Xia, Xianhai Meng, and Peng Wu. "Impact of Institutional Pressures on Organizational Citizenship Behaviors for the Environment: Evidence from Megaprojects." Journal of Management in Engineering 34, no. 5 (September 2018): 04018028. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(asce)me.1943-5479.0000628.

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Zheng, Xian, Yujie Lu, and Ruidong Chang. "Governing Behavioral Relationships in Megaprojects: Examining Effect of Three Governance Mechanisms under Project Uncertainties." Journal of Management in Engineering 35, no. 5 (September 2019): 04019016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(asce)me.1943-5479.0000701.

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He, Qinghua, Ting Wang, Albert P. C. Chan, and Junyan Xu. "Developing a List of Key Performance Indictors for Benchmarking the Success of Construction Megaprojects." Journal of Construction Engineering and Management 147, no. 2 (February 2021): 04020164. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(asce)co.1943-7862.0001957.

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Wang, Dedong, Yuxue Wang, and Yongqiang Lu. "Impact of Regulatory Focus on Uncertainty in Megaprojects: Mediating Role of Trust and Control." Journal of Construction Engineering and Management 146, no. 12 (December 2020): 04020142. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(asce)co.1943-7862.0001951.

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Jaiswal, Sreeja. "Looking beyond the idyllic representations of the rural: The Konkan Railway controversy and middle-class environmentalism in India." Journal of Political Ecology 25, no. 1 (August 1, 2018): 261. http://dx.doi.org/10.2458/v25i1.22046.

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Post-independence India has had its share of controversies around mega-infrastructure projects that have pitted environmental preservation against development concerns. This article studies the environmental controversy around one such megaproject, the Konkan Railway, employing a framework that integrates the environmental values, beliefs and behaviour of individuals and groups with a historical understanding of political economy and ecology (science). Essentialist and over-simplified environmental discourses, without scientific credibility and not based on historical facts, are often influential in policy making, especially when channelled by the middle classes. Better understanding our present concerns and guiding decisions and policies to deal with the problems we currently face, requires unmasking the romanticization of the countryside. We must replace the idyllic version of the past with a nuanced historical understanding of the interaction between nature and culture. This article also locates the controversy over the Konkan Railway within the frames used to study Indian environmentalism. The aim is to improve our understanding of the regional, ideological and cultural pluralities in environmental values, beliefs and behaviour of the middle class in India.

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Xue, Jinjie, Hongping Yuan, and Benshan Shi. "Impact of Contextual Variables on Effectiveness of Partnership Governance Mechanisms in Megaprojects: Case of Guanxi." Journal of Management in Engineering 33, no. 1 (January 2017): 04016034. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(asce)me.1943-5479.0000476.

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Hu, Yi, Albert P. C. Chan, Yun Le, Yelin Xu, and Ming Shan. "Developing a Program Organization Performance Index for Delivering Construction Megaprojects in China: Fuzzy Synthetic Evaluation Analysis." Journal of Management in Engineering 32, no. 4 (July 2016): 05016007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(asce)me.1943-5479.0000432.

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Xue, Jin, Geoffrey Qiping Shen, Rebecca Jing Yang, Irfan Zafar, and E. M. A. C. Ekanayake. "Dynamic Network Analysis of Stakeholder Conflicts in Megaprojects: Sixteen-Year Case of Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge." Journal of Construction Engineering and Management 146, no. 9 (September 2020): 04020103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(asce)co.1943-7862.0001895.

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Shahtaheri, Maryam, Carl T. Haas, and Roozbeh Rashedi. "Applying Very Large Scale Integration Reliability Theory for Understanding the Impacts of Type II Risks on Megaprojects." Journal of Management in Engineering 33, no. 4 (July 2017): 04017003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(asce)me.1943-5479.0000504.

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Li, Qian, Zhimei Yin, Heap-Yih Chong, and Qianqian Shi. "Nexus of Interorganizational Trust, Principled Negotiation, and Joint Action for Improved Cost Performance: Survey of Chinese Megaprojects." Journal of Management in Engineering 34, no. 6 (November 2018): 04018036. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(asce)me.1943-5479.0000634.

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Marin, Rosa Elizabeth Acevedo, and Assis da Costa Oliveira. "Violence and public health in the Altamira region: The construction of the Belo Monte hydroelectric plant." Regions and Cohesion 6, no. 1 (March 1, 2016): 116–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/reco.2016.060106.

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The current Brazilian government’s implantation of development policies prioritizes the building of large infrastructure projects (e.g., roads, ports, airports, gas pipelines) also named large-scale projects (Ribeiro, 2014) or development megaprojects (Timo, 2013).1 This facilitates the appropriation of natural resources (e.g., energy, minerals and the monocultures of the productive chain of interest for agribusiness). This is considered to be an economic growth strategy linked, on one hand, to the continuous expansion of production and circulation of export commodities to North American, Asian and European nations, profiting from increases in prices and the demand in international markets (Almeida, 2012; Malerba & Milanez, 2012; Mesquita, 2011). Conversely, the intensification of political, financial and social intervention of the Brazilian State by means of sectoral planning, loans’ concession and financial investment by public banks or pension funds, and the creation of wealth distribution programs directed to the poorest social classes has also occurred (Castro, 2013; Garzon, 2014).

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