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Project Management Journal
Determining Contingencies in the Management of Construction Projects
This research describes the managerial approaches that contractors follow to determine different types of contingencies in construction project management. Two large Spanish general contractors were…
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Project Management Journal
Public-Private Partnerships
Public-private partnerships (PPPs) have been subjected to considerable public debate. In particular, this debate has concerned PPP financing and its implications. Using insights from agency theory,…
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Project Management Journal
Improving Project Budget Estimation Accuracy and Precision by Analyzing Reserves for Both Identified and Unidentified Risks
Project risk is a critical factor in estimating project budget. Previous studies on this topic have only addressed estimation methods that consider project budget reserves against identified risks.…
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Project Management Journal
Cash Flow Management of Construction Projects in Saudi Arabia
Cash flow management entails forecasting, monitoring, and controlling practices of the cash inflow and outflow and arrangement of deficits over a project's duration. This article reveals, through a…
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Project Management Journal
Green Building Construction Projects In Singapore
This study aims to investigate the cost premiums and cost performance of green building projects. After an extensive literature review, relevant data from 242 traditional and 121 green building…
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Project Management Journal
Toward a Systemic View to Cost Overrun Causation in Infrastructure Projects
Infrastructure cost overruns receive a significant amount of attention in the academic literature as well as the popular press. The methodological weaknesses in the dominant approaches adopted to…
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Project Management Journal
Special Purpose Entities in Megaprojects
Megaprojects involve organizations called "Special Purpose Entities" (SPEs) also known as "special purpose vehicles." Despite their relevance, particularly for governance, SPEs are…
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Project Management Journal
Practical Application and Empirical Evaluation of Reference Class Forecasting for Project Management
Traditionally, project managers produce cost and time forecasts by predicting the future course of specific events. In contrast, reference class forecasting (RCF) bypasses human judgment by basing…
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Project Management Journal
A study on complexity and uncertainty perception and solution strategies for the time/cost trade-off problem
In this article, the Discrete Time/Cost Tradeoff Problem (DTCTP) is revisited in light of a student experiment. Two solution strategies are distilled from the data of 444 participants and are…
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Project Management Journal
Developing a cost overrun predictive model for complex systems development projects
While system complexity is on the rise across many product lines, the resources required to successfully design and implement complex systems remain constrained. Because financiers of complex…
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