.../legalcode Public sector Non-profit sector Project and organization studies In numerous nations, the public sector increasingly utilizes projects to implement development and change in social welfare services (Crawford and Helm, 2009 ; Kovách and Kučerova, 2009 ; Lundin et al...

... The mean cost overrun across projects in our dataset is smaller than several previous international studies have reported. We find no statistical support for different cost performances between QA and non-QA projects. Secondly, cost overruns seem to vary between different public sectors. A third finding...

... organisations including consultants, and contractors within the Angolan public sectors organisations. Response data was subjected to descriptive statistics, mean scores, and inferential statistics (One sample t-tests) and Kendall's concordance. The descriptive and empirical analysis demonstrated...

... to Talbot (2003) , contradictions between different levels in an organisation are more evident in the public sector, as difficulties in working with value conflicts between external stakeholders are exposed. It is hard especially for public and semi-public client organisations to draw up plans and budgets...

... portfolio management (PPM) is a managerial technique used to seek the strategic goals of organizations improving their performance. The public sector has some characteristics that differ from the private sector, since their management approaches are different. The purpose of this paper is to compare...

... approaches for maintaining/developing project capabilities available to the public sector construction client depend on the volatility of the environment and the resources they require. The Nordic region has been experiencing a construction boom in the healthcare sector. A significant portion...

... through questionnaires. Factor analysis was employed to consolidate these detailed factors into major causes of construction project cost overruns. Findings The results show that there are primarily four major causes of most public sector construction projects cost overruns. These four major causes...

...Teemu Mikael Lappi; Kirsi Aaltonen; Jaakko Kujala Purpose ICT projects, especially in the public sector, can have a substantial impact on society but are challenging due to organizational and technological complexities and uncertainties. Collaborative and cooperative project delivery models...

... support to practitioners when trying to understand how competence evolves, how to facilitate learning in organizations that are reliant on human resources, how to manage competence to achieve organizational success, and show the role of the project as a competence arena. Capabilities Public sector...

..., and project governance can provide feasible means of organizational support for complex project success. The purpose of this paper is to: analyze the project governance practices of public sector organizations, illustrate what kind of impact these practices have on agile software projects and describe...

... and explored the issues and barriers to effective implementation of different procurement methods, the environment and its suitability for implementing different forms of procurement in context of public sector in Pakistan. Design/methodology/approach The research was carried out in two stages in the first...

.... Staples can be contacted at: Warren.staples@rmit.edu.au © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Project procurement Infrastructure Public value Public sector Australia There is considerable debate in the literature over the rationale for the existence of the public sector...