Resilient Housing (RH) initiatives are a crucial means of improving access to safe and sanitary housing in urban areas of high vulnerability. These projects make residents safer, healthier, and more secure, and increase the economic inclusion of the world's poorest populations. They upgrade...

In our recent open innovation executive studies, we learned that open innovation is of strategic value for large firms and an important topic for C-level executives (Chesbrough and Brunswicker 2014, Bagherzadeh and Brunswicker 2015). Large firms increasingly invest in open innovation, and there...

The development of hydro electric power plant is one of the efforts in utilizing water resources for people welfare by generating the energy for electricity purpose. Nowadays, the installed capacity of hydro electric power plants is 3,529 MW from the total installed capacity 24,846 MW from...

A major source of risk in project management is inaccurate forecasts of project costs, demand, and other impacts. The paper presents a promising new approach to mitigating such risk based on theories of decision-making under uncertainty, which won the 2002 Nobel Prize in economics. First, the...

Risk approaches in project development led to the integration in the IT project management methodologies and software development of activities and processes of risk management. The diversity and the advanced level of the used technologies in IT projects with increasing complexity leads to an...

The main objective of this work is to suggest a suitable way for e fficient implementation of a Contractor's Claim Management system in construction companies in CEE countries. The Claim is a specifi c requirement of one contracting party for time extension for completion and/or additional...

Purpose: There are different types of projects that have been carried out by the project management organization. But the risk is also involved in managing the project. The purpose of study is to look at risk involved in the project and how it can be measured through use of techniques and...

In Gondar, Ethiopia, the building construction industry is subjected to risky situations that affect construction projects and therefore require systematic means to achieve project objectives and ensure time and money aren’t wasted. Most of the time, many buildings construction companies in...

Risk management effectiveness assures project success. The overall objective of this research is to analyze the risk management practice in an urban road construction project with a case of Shiddharthanagar Municipality, Rupandehi, Nepal from contractor’s and client’s perspective. This...