Integration, Application and Importance of Collaboration in Sustainable Project Management
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Department of Civil, Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering, Luleå University of Technology, 971 87 Luleå, Sweden
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Department of Business Administration, Technology and Social Sciences, Luleå University of Technology, 971 87 Luleå, Sweden
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Sustainability 2020, 12(2), 585; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12020585
Received: 29 November 2019
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Revised: 23 December 2019
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Accepted: 9 January 2020
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Published: 13 January 2020
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Project Management)
The need to consider sustainability has substantially increased the complexity of implementing construction and infrastructure projects and new management practices have emerged during the past decade to tackle the global sustainability challenges, where the engagement and coordination of broader competences from stakeholders throughout the supply chain is required. This new project management paradigm has been accompanied by greater attention to the concept of collaborative business arrangements, often called partnering, that has emerged in construction and infrastructure projects to improve project deliveries. However, there are uncertainties about the optimal strategy to foster, integrate and maintain the required collaboration, particularly in sustainable management practices in infrastructure maintenance projects. This paper addresses these uncertainties, based on a single case study of an infrastructure maintenance contract involving an extensive collaborative business arrangement. The findings reveal that different collaborative practices affect diverse aspects of sustainable project management. Further, the extensive collaborative business arrangement has promoted sustainable deliveries based upon organizational learning and continuous improvements. Thus, this study offers an encouraging example of how extensive collaboration can be fostered and play a key role in sustainable project management practices.
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Keywords:
sustainability; project management; collaboration; business arrangement; maintenance; infrastructure
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Larsson, J.; Larsson, L. Integration, Application and Importance of Collaboration in Sustainable Project Management. Sustainability 2020, 12, 585. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12020585
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Larsson J, Larsson L. Integration, Application and Importance of Collaboration in Sustainable Project Management. Sustainability. 2020; 12(2):585. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12020585
Chicago/Turabian StyleLarsson, Johan, and Lisa Larsson. 2020. "Integration, Application and Importance of Collaboration in Sustainable Project Management" Sustainability 12, no. 2: 585. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12020585
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