Stakeholders in Sustainable Project Management
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2021) | Viewed by 69302
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Interests: application of fuzzy sets to managerial decision making; project management
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Special Issue Information
This Special Issue will be devoted to stakeholders in sustainable project management, where sustainability will refer both to the project per se and to the project product or outcome. The papers should cover the problem of project stakeholder identification, evaluation, and management. They should answer the questions on how to increase project, project product or project outcome sustainability through a proper approach towards project stakeholders. New theoretical proposals and case studies are welcome.
Dear Colleagues,
I would like to invite you to submit papers to a Special Issue of Sustainability, devoted to the problem of stakeholders in sustainable project management. Papers are welcome which deal with the answer to the question of how to increase project, project product, and project outcome sustainability through an appropriate stakeholder identification, evaluation, and management. Theoretical ideas and case studies are welcome.
Thank you very much in advance for your contribution.
References:
Bahadorestani, A., Naderpajouh, N., & Sadiq, R. (2020). Planning for sustainable stakeholder engagement based on the assessment of conflicting interests in projects. Journal of Cleaner Production, 242, 118402. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.118402
Danso, A., Adomako, S., Lartey, T., Amankwah-Amoah, J., & Owusu-Yirenkyi, D. (2019). Stakeholder integration, environmental sustainability orientation and financial performance. Journal of Business Research. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2019.02.038
Eskerod, P., & Huemann, M. (2013). Sustainable development and project stakeholder management: What standards say. International Journal of Managing Projects in Business, 6. https://doi.org/10.1108/17538371311291017
Keeys, L. A., & Huemann, M. (2017). Project benefits co-creation: Shaping sustainable development benefits. International Journal of Project Management, 35(6), 1196–1212. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijproman.2017.02.008
Romestant, F. (2019). Sustainability agencing: The involvement of stakeholder networks in megaprojects. Industrial Marketing Management. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indmarman.2019.09.005
Ton Nu Hai, A., & Speelman, S. (2020). Involving stakeholders to support sustainable development of the marine lobster aquaculture sector in Vietnam. Marine Policy, 113, 103799. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2019.103799
Prof. Dr. Dorota Kuchta
Guest Editor
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