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A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Engineering and Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 October 2021.
Special Issue Editors
Interests: sustainability; project management and control; supply chain management; data envelopment analysis
Interests: project management; knowledge management
Interests: project management; business systems analysis
Interests: project management; entrepreneurship; innovation
Interests: applied project management; project quality and risk
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Project stakeholders are increasingly emphasizing sustainable, green, and eco-friendly endeavors during a project’s life cycle. To produce sustainable deliverables, the project team needs to follow sustainable processes during project delivery. In this context, project control is used to measure and ideally guarantee project sustainability in terms of performance indicators. For example, some of the main government agencies are publishing sustainability statements on their websites. Theoretically, this should flow into projects that they undertake. Assuming that the project plan has been created on the basis of sustainability principles, the contractors and subcontractors may not followed these if doing so results in further delas to a project. By then, it is probably too late to make amends given the focus on the triple constraints (time, cost, and scope). Sustainable project management (SPM) helps organizations with how projects are performed, managed, measured, and controlled. Therefore, SPM positively influences project success by reducing the negative social and environmental impacts of projects. However, many project organizations are confronting significant challenges to integrating sustainability into their project management.
This Special Issue (SI) aims to discuss the innovative approaches to managing sustainability in projects. This SI will contribute to an integrated and holistic understanding of the importance of sustainability, challenges of embedding sustainability in projects, and innovative solutions to overcome those challenges. Original academic research papers (quantitative and qualitative) and review studies containing the latest findings in the field of sustainable project management and control are welcome. Case studies from different industries or projects such as oil and gas, construction, manufacturing, transportation, mining, education, information technology, medical and health, not-for-profit, business development, agriculture, etc. are welcome.
The scope of this Special Issue includes, but is not limited to, the following:
- Sustainable project management processes and knowledge areas
- Sustainable and green procurement practices
- Sustainability and project success
- Social responsibility in projects
- Agency dilemma in project management
- Corporate governance in project management and control
- Risk management for sustainable projects
- Case studies of sustainable project management and control
- Sustainable benefits realization management
- Sustainability-oriented project control
- Contractors and sub-contractors for sustainable project management and control
- Eco-innovation and project management
- Circular economy and project management
- Sustainability policies and resources
- Sustainability of systems and processes (including IT) in project management
- Sustainable waste management in projects
Dr. Reza Kiani Mavi
Prof. Dr. Denise Gengatharen
Dr. Ross Yates
Dr. Alistair Campbell
Mr. Richard Hughes
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1900 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- Sustainability
- Project management
- Innovation
- Project success
- Sustainability policy
Planned Papers
The below list represents only planned manuscripts. Some of these manuscripts have not been received by the Editorial Office yet. Papers submitted to MDPI journals are subject to peer-review.
Authors: Lidija Rihar, Tomaž Berlec, Tena Žužek and Janez Kušar
Author Affiliations: Faculty of Mechanical engineering, Aškerčeva 6, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Abstract: In this article we will present the impact of strategies, methods and tools of concurrent engineering on product sustainability. Concurrent product realization based on good project management, teamwork and the involvement of all stakeholders allows to achieve the primary objectives of a single project (lower costs, shorter times, high quality, lower wastes and the impact on the environment) while ensuring sustainability through fewer discrepancies and necessary corrections, by increasing added value. This will increase the stakeholder’s satisfaction, both internal and external, by creating a good working environment. The process will be presented by an example of concurrent project product realization in engineering to order production.