“…However, many a times, projects fail to keep up with the planned schedules and budgeted costs to meet their goals (Shafiuddin et al, 2022;Safaeian, Fathollahi-Fard, Kabirifar, Yazdani, & Shapouri, 2022). The existing literature suggests that there is a consensus between academia and industry that project risk management is critical to project success (Aramali, Sanboskani, Gibson Jr, El Asmar, & Cho, 2022;Ahmad et al, 2022). However, the link between project risk management and project performance is rarely addressed in the existing literature (Jahan et al, 2022).…”