A bibliometric description and content analysis of mega-project characteristics

Author

Xiaofeng Peng ; Wen Che ; Yongyi Shou

Author_Institution

Sch. of Manage., Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou, China

fYear

2012

fDate

10-13 Dec. 2012

Firstpage

2331

Lastpage

2336

Abstract

With the rapid development of project management practice, mega-project management has become a hot research topic in the field of project management. At present, researchers hold different understandings of the characteristics of mega-projects, thus it is of theoretical significance to study this issue. By collecting the academic papers relevant to mega-projects published from 1998 to 2011 in the Web of Science, we made a bibliometric description of the retrieval results and summarized the status quo of mega-project management. The content analysis method was employed in this megaproject characteristics study. Using a category system, we found four significant factors including time constraint, stakeholders, impact of external environment, and risk.

Keywords

construction industry; information analysis; information retrieval; project management; Web of science; bibliometric description; category system; content analysis; external environment; mega-project characteristics; mega-project management; project management practice; retrieval results; time constraint; Bibliometrics; Complexity theory; Educational institutions; Encoding; Investment; Project management; Time factors; Mega-project; characteristic; content analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM), 2012 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hong Kong

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEEM.2012.6838164

Filename

6838164