Exploring Relationships between National Culture and Infrastructure Sustainability Using QCA

Meng, J.; Yan, Jinghong; Xue, Bin

doi:10.1061/(asce)co.1943-7862.0001463

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“…The environmental sustainable development of MIPs requires the best use of resources (for example, water, energy, and land use) [ 28 , 42 , 43 , 44 , 45 , 46 ], minimum waste discharge (such as gas emissions, wastewater discharge, solid waste, light, and noise) [ 41 , 47 , 48 , 49 ], reduced damage to the natural landscape [ 50 , 51 ], maintenance of the biodiversity of the natural ecological system, ecological balance, and protection of the earth as far as possible [ 29 , 52 ]. The social sustainable development of MIPs requires the protection of regional culture [ 53 , 54 ], concern for the safety and health of employees and the public [ 29 , 55 ], compatibility with citizens’ ideals, encouragement of social integration [ 20 , 39 , 40 , 52 ] guaranteed social equality [ 56 , 57 ], and provision of a public service that improves the quality of life of all segments of the population [ 38 , 55 , 58 , 59 ]. The coordination of sustainable development of the MIPs was used to support the “three pillars,” wherein the MIPs project team comprised multidisciplinary (economic, social, and environmental) professionals [ 29 , 60 ]; furthermore, contracts, regulations, and policies that include sustainable development were formulated [ 37 , 60 ], and a comprehensive project lifecycle monitoring and maintenance management system was established [ 27 , 61 ].…”

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Identifying the Key Risk Factors of Mega Infrastructure Projects from an Extended Sustainable Development Perspective

Pan

You

et al. 2021

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Mega infrastructure projects (MIPs) have become increasingly important to the realization of sustainable development in China. Sustainable development is a process of dynamic balance, and coordinating the triple bottom line (the environmental, social, and economic dimensions) will enable more sustainable development of MIPs. However, previous studies have lacked consideration of coordination when applying sustainable development principles to the systematic identification of risks to MIPs. The goals of this study were to clarify the definition and dimensions of the sustainable development of MIPs and to identify the key risks of MIPs. A literature review was performed to extend the definition of sustainable development of MIPs by combining the triple bottom line with a fourth coordination dimension. A conceptual model of MIP risk identification was then proposed from an extended sustainable development perspective, 22 sustainability elements and 75 risk factors were identified, and the key risk factors were determined based on the interview responses and fuzzy set theory. The results show that economic risks have a high probability, social risks have a high loss, environmental risks have an intermediate probability and loss, and coordination risks have the greatest impact. In addition, the three most important key risk factors were found to be construction and installation cost overruns, land acquisition and resettling cost overruns, and information sharing with the public. Identifying key risk factors can provide information to help stakeholders understand the risk factors associated with MIPs and formulate reasonable risk response strategies.

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Identifying the Key Risk Factors of Mega Infrastructure Projects from an Extended Sustainable Development Perspective

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“…Infrastructure as a system engineering affects a wide range of stakeholders and consumes a great number of resources. Therefore, infrastructure sustainability is one driving force for urban economic growth, social utility enhancement and environmental harmony improvement from a lifecycle viewpoint (Meng et al , 2018, 2015; Xue and Xu, 2018). However, the sustainable delivery of infrastructures becomes debatable because there exist many ways to measure and achieve infrastructure sustainability.…”

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How project management practices lead to infrastructure sustainable success: an empirical study based on goal-setting theory

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Meng

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PurposeThe sustainable success of infrastructures is becoming a driving force for advancing urbanization globally. However, to achieve infrastructure sustainable success (ISS), how project management practices (PMPs) play their role remains unexplored in current literature. To this end, an empirical study on whether PMPs play significant impacts on the accomplishment of ISS was conducted.Design/methodology/approachThis research is based on an empirical survey of domestic and overseas infrastructure projects managed by Chinese companies. 162 data samples were collected and further analyzed deploying structural equation modeling (SEM) on the basis of goal-setting theory. PMP factors derived from the plan-do-check-act (PDCA) ideology, i.e. culture, strategy, implementation and reflection were hypothesized and validated to have direct and indirect relationships with ISS.FindingsThe results of this study indicate that both culture and reflection can directly drive the PMPs toward ISS. Furthermore, it is revealed that by affecting mediator factors of strategy, implementation and reflection, culture is found to present an indirect influence on ISS; by affecting mediator factors of implementation and reflection, Strategy is found to present an indirect influence on ISS and by affecting the mediator factor of reflection, implementation is found to present an indirect influence on ISS.Originality/valueThese findings contribute to the body of knowledge in measuring sustainability success of project management performances by clarifying critical relationships of how PMPs lead to ISS. Prospectively, the outputs of this research will generate informative insights for practitioners to improve their PMPs in the process of pursuing ISS in future infrastructure management practices.

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“…In accordance with the research design, asset specificity, environmental uncertainty, behavioral uncertainty, transaction frequency, trust and reputation are used as condition variables, and TCs are used as the outcome variable. The collected data should be classified to meet the requirements of QCA, but no unified standard exists for the dichotomy of data (Meng et al, 2018). Rihoux suggested that the threshold should be determined based on actual and theoretical bases (Rihoux and Ragin, 2009).…”

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Factors affecting transaction costs in megaprojects: a qualitative comparative analysis

Wang

2021

IJMPB

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PurposeThe purpose of this study is to examine the factors influencing the transaction costs (TCs) in megaprojects to provide a basis for controlling project costs.Design/methodology/approachThis study selects six factors influencing the TCs in megaprojects from the perspective of TC theory and relational contract theory (RCT) through literature review. On the basis of crisp-set qualitative comparative analysis (QCA), this study tests combined factors influencing the TCs and the interaction between them.FindingsResults show that in megaprojects, TCs are affected by combination factors. The combination of asset specificity, uncertainty, transaction frequency and trust and the combination of asset specificity, reputation and trust will control TCs in certain situations. In the configuration leading to high project TCs, the combination of environmental and behavioral uncertainties is a necessary condition.Originality/valueThis paper fills up the research gap in the field of megaproject TCs, and researchers can focus on this field in the future.

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Exploring Relationships between National Culture and Infrastructure Sustainability Using QCA

Cited by 23 publications

References 29 publications

Identifying the Key Risk Factors of Mega Infrastructure Projects from an Extended Sustainable Development Perspective

Identifying the Key Risk Factors of Mega Infrastructure Projects from an Extended Sustainable Development Perspective

How project management practices lead to infrastructure sustainable success: an empirical study based on goal-setting theory

Factors affecting transaction costs in megaprojects: a qualitative comparative analysis

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