Prebanić, K.R.; Vukomanović, M. Exploring Stakeholder Engagement Process as The Success Factor for Infrastructure Projects. Buildings2023, 13, 1785.
Prebanić, K.R.; Vukomanović, M. Exploring Stakeholder Engagement Process as The Success Factor for Infrastructure Projects. Buildings 2023, 13, 1785.
Prebanić, K.R.; Vukomanović, M. Exploring Stakeholder Engagement Process as The Success Factor for Infrastructure Projects. Buildings2023, 13, 1785.
Prebanić, K.R.; Vukomanović, M. Exploring Stakeholder Engagement Process as The Success Factor for Infrastructure Projects. Buildings 2023, 13, 1785.
Abstract
Today, the world is undergoing a major investment cycle in infrastructure, which is vital for the development and prosperity of countries and society. Management deficiencies in infrastructure projects are well known and some of them concerns weak engagement of project stakeholders. Importance of stakeholder engagement as the key success factors for infrastructure projects is recognized. However, the literature gives very few answers how this process manifests in projects. Some scholars concluded that it is a complex and undertheorized management process which necessitates more empirical research. The research questions seek to identify how practitioners perceive the stakeholder engagement, who implements activities and processes related to engagement and in what way, which organizational aspects influence the process and how success is achieved in infrastructural projects. Interviews were conducted with eight experienced experts who participated in a whole series of (complex) infrastructure projects. The interviews examined all aspects of the engagement of stakeholders in detail, and a thematic analysis was carried out. Based on the analysis, success/failure factors related to the stakeholder engagement process were defined. As a result, a framework model for engaging stakeholders and achieving success in infrastructure projects is presented, which is based on three management levels and three levels of project success.
Keywords
stakeholder; engagement; project success; factors; criteria; governance; infrastructure; framework model
Subject
Engineering, Civil Engineering
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