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on Project, Program and Portfolio Management |
| By: | Fauzan Choon bin Abdullah (Wawasan Open University, Penang, Malaysia Author-2-Name: Logaiswari Indiran Author-2-Workplace-Name: Faculty of Management , Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai Johor, Malaysia Author-3-Name: Anbalagan Krishnan Author-3-Workplace-Name: Wawasan Open University, Penang, Malaysia Author-4-Name: Saranya Nair Pavithran Author-4-Workplace-Name: Faculty of Management , Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai Johor, Malaysia Author-5-Name: Author-5-Workplace-Name: Author-6-Name: Author-6-Workplace-Name: Author-7-Name: Author-7-Workplace-Name: Author-8-Name: Author-8-Workplace-Name:) |
| Abstract: | " Objective - The building sector is essential to Malaysia's economic expansion. Despite its significance, large construction companies usually experience delays and project failure, affecting 95% of homebuyers due to 580 delayed projects in 2022. By February 28, 2023, 581 projects had been reported as delayed. Methodology/Technique - This study experimentally examines the relationship between effective project governance and project performance in 390 Malaysian construction companies, using a framework based on agency theory and assessed with partial least squares structured equation modeling. Finding - Benefit management serves as a mediator between project performance and effective project governance, and top management support has a positive moderating influence. Novelty - The study highlights the importance of preventive measures, enhancing team and project manager roles, and forming strategic alliances for improved project governance. Type of Paper - Empirical" |
| Keywords: | Effective project governance; project management risk; benefit management; top management support; project performance. |
| JEL: | H60 H61 M10 M11 |
| Date: | 2024–09–30 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:gtr:gatrjs:gjbssr652 |
| By: | Reichard, Will; Guensler, Randall |
| Abstract: | This study applies bootstrap analysis to historic transportation project item cost data to develop improved estimates of item costconfidence bounds for use in transportation project cost uncertainty analysis (a component of lifecycle analysis). Bootstrap regression results of confidence bounds will then be integrated into AASHTOWare Project Cost Estimator so that Monte Carlo procedures can estimate project-level confidence intervals for use in lifecycle project cost analysis and transportation capital planning. Data and functions contained within AASHTOWare (a cost estimation software licensed to the Departments of Transportation for over 40 states and the District of Columbia) are employed in the analyses. Coordinating with the Georgia Department of Transportation to obtain a research license for AASHTOWare took longer than expected, resulting in projectdelays. This report summarizes the work completed to date and describes the remaining steps required to finish the study and for the primary author to publish a final dissertation. View the NCST Project Webpage |
| Keywords: | Engineering, AASHTOWare, construction cost estimation confidence bounds, infrastructure design and alternatives assessment. |
| Date: | 2024–08–01 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cdl:itsdav:qt5xj9b8jm |
| By: | Fiegenbaum, Hanna |
| Abstract: | Carbon credits are a key component of most national and organizational climate strategies. Financing and delivering carbon credits from forest-related activities faces multiple risks at the project and asset levels. Financial mechanisms are employed to mitigate risks for investors and project developers, complemented by non-financial measures such as environmental and social safeguards and physical risk mitigation. Despite these efforts, academic research highlights that safeguards and climate risk mitigation measures are not efficiently implemented in some carbon projects and that specification of environmental safeguards remains underdeveloped. Further, environmental and social risk mitigation capacities may not be integrated into financial mechanisms. This text examines how ecosystem capacities can be leveraged and valued for mitigation of and adaptation to physical risks by complementing carbon credits with biodiversity insurance and resilience value. |
| Date: | 2024–11–12 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:osf:osfxxx:buvzy |
| By: | Hasan Dinçer (The School of Business, ?stanbul Medipol University); Serhat Yüksel (The School of Business, ?stanbul Medipol University); Bijan Abadi (University of Maragheh) |
| Abstract: | Wind energy storage technologies should be improved by taking appropriate actions. However, all improvements increase the operational costs for the companies. Therefore, the most essential criteria should be identified to implement these actions efficiently. Accordingly, the purpose of this study is to understand the key issues for wind energy storage technologies. For this situation, a new model is established by using DEMATEL and TOPSIS techniques. Firstly, selected indicators are weighted via DEMATEL. Secondly, emerging seven economies are ranked with the help of TOPSIS. Hence, the main contribution of this study to the literature is that prior strategies can be identified for the improvements of the wind energy storage technologies by creating a new model. The results of this study can pave the way for the investors to increase the effectiveness of these projects. The findings indicate that technological development is the most critical issue for the performance improvements of the wind energy storage technologies. Durable materials and storage capacity are other critical factors for the development of these technologies. It is also stated that durable material is the most influencing factor since it affects all other criteria. On the other hand, storage capacity is the most influenced determinants because it is affected from all other items. In addition to them, it is also concluded that China is the most successful country with respect to the wind energy storage technology performance. Russia is another important emerging country in this framework. |
| Keywords: | Wind Energy; Energy Storage; Techno-economic Assessment |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:sek:iefpro:14716414 |
| By: | Victor Cardenas |
| Abstract: | The document addresses the essential role of financial regulatory frameworks in mitigating climate-related risks within the financial sector. The assessment evaluates Canada's efforts to establish a regulatory framework for financial climate risk disclosure, compares it to international standards, and identifies areas for improvement. The regulatory framework, fiscal impact, and incentives to relinquish investments in fossil fuel projects and transition to renewable energies swiftly and seamlessly are the primary challenges that Canada faces in achieving energy net zero targets. |
| Date: | 2024–11 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:arx:papers:2411.02668 |
| By: | Dafne Murillo; Sebastian Sardon |
| Abstract: | State capacity may shape whether natural resources generate prosperity, as it determines if windfalls are effectively turned into useful projects or wasted. We test this hypothesis studying the 2004-2011 mining boom in Peru, where mines' profits are redistributed as windfall transfers to local governments. Our empirical strategy combines geological data with the central government's mining windfalls allocation formula to identify the windfalls' effects on household incomes and other measures of economic development. Proxying local state capacity with the ability to tax and relying on a triple difference strategy we uncover significant variation in treatment response, with positive effects of windfalls limited to high state capacity localities. We find suggestive evidence that only localities with high state capacity succeed at transforming windfalls into infrastructure stocks, which in turns contributes to structural transformation and market integration. Lastly, social unrest increases in low state capacity localities that receive windfalls but fail to perceive their benefits. Our findings underscore important complementarities between investments in extractive industries and in state capacity. |
| Date: | 2024–11 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:arx:papers:2411.09586 |
| By: | Sergio Petralia; ; ; ; |
| Abstract: | This article outlines a method to link organizations’ patenting activities at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) with their Open Source Software (OSS) contributions in GitHub, the most popular code-hosting service platform. It also provides two ready-to-use databases that are easy to connect to related data sources. The first includes information about all contributions (6, 091, 653) made to 54 of the most popular OSS projects until June 2024, amounting to over 49 million file changes and more than 3.3 billion line modifications. The second includes information on patents granted until June 2024 (1, 719, 510) to 1, 328 organizations with activity in GitHub. This novel data can be used to explore the dynamics and mechanisms driving innovation within modern technological ecosystems, where the lines between proprietary and open-source development are becoming blurry. It offers an opportunity to investigate several unresolved puzzles in the economics of OSS literature, such as disentangling the intrinsic and extrinsic motivations behind individual contributions to OSS, understanding the strategic reasons organizations engage in OSS, and exploring collaboration and geographical concentration mechanisms in the production of digital technologies. |
| Date: | 2024–11 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:egu:wpaper:2437 |