Stakeholder Analysis in the Feasibility Process of Projects: A Structural Evaluation of the Power-Oriented Relationship

Mehrdad Sarhadi, Sogand Hasanzadeh, Seyed Hosein Hoseini

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Abstract

The feasibility process of public construction projects is under the influence of stakeholders, who give direction to public resource allocation. Therefore, the analysis of stakeholders in this process is critical. An inductive qualitative approach was adopted using the grounded theory method to provide a theoretical explanation of stakeholders’ behaviors. Under the insight of structuration theory, the results indicated that the challenges are derived from various interrelated factors, leading to the emergence of improper participation as a macro-structural phenomenon with multilateral interaction with a power-oriented relationship as a micro behavior in the feasibility process at the agency level.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)323-339
Number of pages17
JournalProject Management Journal
Volume52
Issue number4
Early online date11 Apr 2021
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Aug 2021
Externally publishedYes

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Funding Information:
We would like to thank the interviewees who took part in this research. We are grateful to Associate Editor Christine Unterhitzenberger and three anonymous reviewers for their insightful comments, which helped us to improve this article significantly. The author(s) received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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