فهرست مطالب mohammadhossein sobhiyah

This research effort aims at investigating theoretical foundations of developing a competence baseline for project managers in Iran using the Grounded Theory approach. Based on a series of interviews, the competencies affecting the success of project were identified. Throughout these interviews, 551 codes were identified and open, axial, and selective coding was practiced to analyze the coded data, ending up codifying the causal conditions, contextual factors, strategies, and consequences. Considering the causal conditions, impacts of micro environmental factors and special conditions of the country on the project management were crystal clear. These causal conditions were observed to lead to a highly fluctuating environment, non-standard projects, poorly predictable behaviors, and regulations with person- or case-specific interpretations. In such a context where behavioral competences are affected by environmental conditions, one may refer, as a fundamental approach and a major part of the paradigm change to the second-order project management, to the greater importance of behavioral and environmental competencies rather than technical issues. At the same time, one may refer to the paradigm change from technical competencies to agility-based competencies that have roots in the PM-2 as an approach that worth considering. Consequences of these strategies include the necessity of ruling out the conventional structures of linear programming and rather paying attention to key competencies of project managers such as holism, persistent troubleshooting, instantaneous management, creativity and problem-solving capability, high mental preparedness, flexibility, commitment, and result-orientation, which are outcomes of the paradigm change to the PM-2.

The success of PPP projects depends on various factors. The main concern is to develop an underlying theoretical model of desirable collaboration in freeway projects in Iran. In this research, antecedents and consequences of collaboration have been extracted. In order to conduct the research, the multi-case study method has been used to collect data and the Grounded Theory has been applied to analyze them. Then, the theoretical model of collaboration between the public sector and the private sector has been presented. According to the research findings, the collaboration phenomenon in this type of partnership is defined by collaboration categories, such as providing resources, project definition, facilitating bureaucratic processes, legal, risk sharing, meeting benefits, stakeholder management, upgrading new construction methods, and information sharing. The causal antecedents for collaboration include: characteristics of the public and private sectors, joint decision making, trust, commitment, members’ believe in the benefits of collaboration, and process/structure. The categories of financing system, macro-economy, administrative system, trade union interaction, sanctions, maturity of rules, and government meritocracy were also identified as the contextual factors for collaboration. Finally, the consequences of collaboration were identified as efficiency, innovation, satisfaction, benefits of parties, and willingness to invest in the future.

The effective and efficient use of project management processes is one of the important and key factors in the success of organizational projects. Choosing and applying the standards raised in these processes, on the one hand, and establishing a comprehensive and operational project management system on the other hand, is a path that leads to making managerial decisions and improving quality, reducing costs, creating policies that are appropriate to the project, and facilitating communication between stakeholders., increasing the productivity of human resources, project managers, consultants and contractors. Today, project management is known as a science and knowledge, and standards have been written to ensure the existence of the desired implementation methods of this standard and to identify the elements related to the standard, and these standards, in addition to key issues such as cost, time, and other project management issues It deals with logistics, scope, integrity, and risk. Therefore, in this article, we will introduce the most important international standards and indicators of project and construction management and present each of the standards, then we will talk about the status of project management standards in Iran and ways to develop this standard.

Demanding for organizations that act responsibly and move towards social responsibility has intensified with the organizations' increasing impact on the components of sustainable development. In this regard, organizations contribute to their credibility by being aware of the factors involved in corporate social responsibility (CSR) and manifesting it in their decisions. In this article, we investigated variables affecting policies and actions related to corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the context of project-based organizations in the country. For this purpose, first, an initial theoretical framework has been developed by reviewing scholarly journal articles and interviewing experts. Then, the theoretical framework has been validated and finalized by sending questionnaires to several experts and the Delphi method. As a result, we identified 11 factors at three institutional, organizational, and individual levels. Five factors at the institutional level include the country's growth and development rate, government-society relationships, the action of formal governmental institutions, the action of formal non-governmental institutions, and the action of informal institutions; four factors at the organizational level include the organization's governance system, organization profile, Organizational planning, and cultural orientation of the organization; and two factors at the individual level include the characteristics of the governing body and the characteristics of human resources.

Culture has a direct impact on project processes, especially the initial process of the project, this issue is more pronounced in multinational projects or environments with high cultural complexity. According to the literature review, it seems that the existing theories and models have neglected the influence of cultural factors on the performance of initial project management processes and the lack of a clear theoretical framework to explain the performance of initial project management processes that requires attention to cultural factors in the literature. it is obvious. In this study, considering the gap in the literature in the field of studying the role of culture in the initial processes and early actions of projects, the study of cultural components affecting the performance of the initial processes of project management has been considered. Due to the fact that there is no clear theoretical framework in the literature to analyze the above problem, in this study, qualitative research method and GT-based methodology with Strauss and Carbin approach have been used. Based on the analysis of the findings, it seems that national cultural factors such as "short-sightedness", "partiality", "unplannedness", "haste", and "convenience-seeking", as well as professional cultural factors such as: "lack of language" Common between project pillars "," project pillars mismatch "," client's pleasant preference for reality "," disbelief in project management standards "," disbelief in documentation "and" technical overcoming of project management ", paving the way for" hasty start " Projects "is in the country.

The public sector has always sought to attract the private sector to partnership in the construction of infrastructure projects. The process of partnering in developed countries have less problems, while in developing countries, it faces with more serious barriers and problems. In these countries, including Iran, in spite of the proper initial reception, numerous complexities and challenges have affected project performance and also continuity partnership. This research was performed to identify the factors of environmental complexity of the projects involved public and private sectors in build, operate and transfer contracts (BOT). Multiple case study strategy was used for deep study of freeway projects. Each case was studied in detail and then the research data were analyzed by grounded theory strategy. The main product of this research is the paradigmatic model of the pathology of freeway partnership projects. In this model, the axial phenomenon was identified the private sector's dissatisfaction duo to uncertainties in cost, time and revenue of the freeway. The causal conditions were found the economical, political, and legal instabilities along with the cultural and social challenges in project environment. Context conditions were identified such as mismatches in the rules, contractual weaknesses, banking system, and finally, immaturity. Intervening conditions were obtained such as the lack of suitable market for investment projects, the influence of powerful institutions, lack of commitment and lack of a national transportation plan. According to this research, the most important outcomes of complexity were obtained increased distrust and increased ambiguity of return on investment.

The present study aims at presenting the pathological model of the process of collaboration between the public and nongovernmental sectors as one of the key factors affecting project performance utilizing multi-case research method as well as the grounded theory for data analysis. This research tries to find quality partnerships for implementing projects that are delivered by BOT. These drivers will include the causal conditions, structures, processes, and mechanisms of actors involved in public-private partnerships. In this regard, at first step, by reviewing the literature, the approach of developed and developing countries, and the way, in which, the parties engage in different contexts are investigated.Then, the required data is collected to be used in the grounded theory by referring to the successful and unsuccessful cases in collaboration between the governmental and nongovernmental sections, and conducting interviews with different individuals from different levels of management from both sectors, attending meetings of the committee of investment companies in the construction of Iranian freeways and memorization from our observations of how the dialogue, behavior and interaction of the parties. Then, by analyzing the acquired data, the Pathology Model of the collaborative process between public sector and non-governmental sector in BOT freeway projects is developed.According the obtained results in this study, the lack of respect, risk coverage, and joint decision making constitute the phenomenon of undesirable partnership. Finally, while comparing this research findings with those existing in the literature, executive suggestions are made to reduce challenges and promote existing collaborative efforts.

Considering the problem of construction projects performance weaknesses, the aim of this study is to provide a contextual-theoretical model of project performance based on trust in the client and contractor relationship that simultaneously describes the characteristics of trust, the factors affecting it and its outcomes in achieving project performance.

This study was a developmental applied research and has been conducted through a qualitative method. On this basis, using the grounded theory strategy, data from the target community of this research, which included informants of clients and contractors of Tehran urban construction projects, were collected and analyzed.

Based on textual analysis of the interviews, the six derived categories of trust characteristics were: Other party’s ability; Integrity; Benevolence; Having the necessary resources of cooperation; Stability and awareness. Meanwhile, the nine derived categories of factors affecting trust were: Project delivery method quality; Project bid document quality; Project contract quality; Project communication system quality; Other party’s records reliability; Other party’s certificates and credentials reliability; Emotional bond depth with other Party; Close environmental factors performance; and Distant environmental factors performance. Finally, the single derived category of the outcomes of trust in achieving an acceptable performance in a project is the quality of the relationship between a client and a contractor during projectimplementation.

The contextual-theoretical model of this study has been extracted by establishing links between derived categories which can contribute to project management literature via generating an understanding of the trust process in the context of urban construction projects, and how it is influenced and it affects the project performance.

The growing popularity of free zone mega-programs has led to the need to study the success of these mega-programs; a topic that has not received enough attention in project management researches. The purpose of the present study is to develop a theoretical model for the definition process of successful free zone mega-programs in Iran. This study was conducted through an inductive approach and used the grounded theory strategy. For this purpose, data were first collected through semi-structured interviews with twenty-two private and public sector managers related to Iran's free zones. Then, data analysis was performed using coding techniques. The categories related to the definition process of successful free zone mega-programs in Iran were extracted from the interviews and relationships among the categories that were discussed. Based on the process of coding, six propositions were created and the theoretical model for definition process of successful free zone mega-programs was developed. Using the results of this study, the factors influencing the definition of a successful free zone mega-program as well as criteria for evaluating the success of the process of defining the free zone mega-program are presented.

Megaprojects have an important effect in economic growth of countries. However many of them face problems, such as cost overrun, delay, financial failure, negative impact on environment and surrounding society. One the fundamental reasons of the poor performance of the megaprojects, is the impact of cultural factors of institutional environment of megaprojects. In this paper, the impact of various cultural factors on the performance of some of Iranian megaprojects in the fields of oil, gas, petrochemical plants, dams and urban tunnels are studied, the most of which are financed by public budget and are implemented by governmental (or public sector) contractors, so they may be considered as a temporary governmental organization.

This research was conducted by grounded theory strategy through interviewing of nineteen managers and senior engineers, and the cultural factors are identified and a model is presented for this impact.

The findings of the study shows that the cultural variety of staff and managers, cultural issues of the staff, and also the cultural differences of different nationalities and Iranian ethnics, such as difference in calendar of actors' origin countries (difference in weekends and new year holiday), staff solitary life while stationed in project camp and the personal and societal consequences of camp life (such as alcohol and drug use, prostitution, etc.) and their work-personal life conflict, cultural diversity of staff, religious and ethnic prejudice, local society culture, local workers culture and communication problems (language and accent differences) have impact on the performance of megaprojects

Difference in the culture, hase impact on performance and shall be considered in planning of these projects.

The interviewees were mainly experienced in oil, gas and petrochemical projects. Therfore there is a limitation for extending the results to all kind of projects which may be considered in future researches.

This paper concentrated on the impact of cultural issues on the performance of megaprojects and modeling the impact which has rarely been investigated in Iran.

The system of governance in mega-projects, which is implemented when a variety of companies under a consortium agreement play a role, can affect the performance and success of the consortiums. According to the literature and the present research gap, it became clear that one of the key factors influencing success is having a proper and well-defined governance system. The purpose of this study is to get a better understanding of the components of the governance system in mega multi-firm projects in consortiums and its impact on participation. Using qualitative and exploratory research methods, six upstream consortiums in South Pars Company were investigated and content analysis was used to analyze the data and to reach the relationships among them. Governance characteristics and process mechanisms are identified as the two components of governance. Following that, the consequences of the existing governance resulting from these two elements are presented. Finally, ten interpretations of the results are put forward.