"Preface While portfolio management has been applied in the financial industry since the early 1950s, it is only within the past two to three decades that academic research plus guidelines for practitioners have been conducted and made available. Although some organizations used portfolio...

"BACKGROUND As detailed more thoroughly in Chapter 1, project health assessments are not a new concept. They have been conducted ever since project sponsors realized a project was "failing" and took action to prevent that failure. Even formal methodologies to evaluate project health are not new:...

Although transaction costs (TCs) that affect the total project costs are a common phenomenon in the Pakistani construction industry, the causes that escalate the TCs are ambiguous, and public sector organizations are unable to manage these causes efficiently. To investigate the causes of...

The environmental footprint of the global construction industry has emerged as a major concern in an era of massive urbanization across the world. Drawing on the complex and under-explored role of project sustainability management (PSM) and high performance work systems (HPWS), this study...

A pragmatic approach to business innovation is to bridge transformational entrepreneurship with the management of innovation-based projects. However, scholars have given limited attention to the underlying factors that explain linkages between entrepreneurial orientation and project success....

Researchers and practitioners are trying hard to analyze the leadership into a widespread and general set of processes, methods, and measures. Attempts are being made by various researchers to discover the best leadership practices having larger success stories. The purpose of this inquiry is to...

Project success has remained the center of project management since long time. Continuous efforts are being indulged by various academicians and practitioners to find out the factors that contribute significantly toward project success. The authors edify the importance of project managers as...

This paper intends to examine the influence of competencies of project leaders on success of transport infrastructure development projects. Subsequently, to decide on intervening role of innovative-work-behavior on project success. Lastly, investigating contingent effect of project type as...