For several decades now, Moroccan public authorities have been attempting to contain the growth in urban motorized traffic by improving the performance of the public transport system. The idea behind these improvements is frequently to make public transport competitive with the car. The...

In the actual crisis context, investment project appraisals and capital budgeting, which involve assessing the financial feasibility of a project, should use Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) analysis. This paper tries to present good practice principles and rules in project appraisal and financial...

We investigate the group processes involved in effort estimation in the context of Project Management. The groups considered are formed by "experts" (people with specific technical competence) and "non-experts"¬ù (people with less specific technical competence, usually experts in related...

The economic, political, social, cultural, technological, etc. changes the XXI-st century is facing trigger modifications at the level of the economy, society, organization and of the management of this one. Such transformations result in the appearance of new trends at the international level,...

This paper examines the effect of job rotation policy as a control mechanism in preventing managerial escalation of commitment under an agency problem setting. A total of 54 business students participated in a laboratory experiment. A 2 × 2 between-subjects ANOVA was used to test the hypotheses...

Pierre-Paul Riquet build the Royal waterway of Languedoc (France) at the 17th century, waterway became then the Canal du Midi. In its time, it was the most significant European project. Inspired by other models of waterways built since Antiquity, it was used as model or example with much of...

This research introduces a specialised information support system that was designed and implemented for project management and financial monitoring in public sector of funded projects, under the Greek National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF). Its goal was to ensure effective data monitoring...

As a consequence of globalization, application of new technologies, turbulent economic environment, the uncertainties affecting markets, organizations must cope with ongoing transformational process. In this context, the project-based organization (PBO) emerges as an ideal alternative of...

Properly spending the budget on public investments is the main issue of public authorities. The investment projects sustained by the state are very important for the entire socio-economic life. This is the reason that put the selection process of the solution under question marks and suspicions....

This paper discusses the literature on the management of projects with unforeseeable uncertainty. Recent work demonstrates that, when confronted with unforeseeable uncertainties, managers can adopt either a learning, trial-and-error-based strategy, or a parallel approach. In the latter,...