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Defining Decisions Points to Avoid Escalation in Construction Projects

Författare

Redaktör

  • Bengt Hansson
  • Anne Landin

Summary, in English

Conflicts between project stakeholders can stop or damage a construction project as well as

technical problems. It is not uncommon that projects are stopped or changed late in the process

with the effect that large amounts of already made investments becomes obsolete. One

explanation of this phenomena is the escalation of project decisions, where project managers

persist with a course of actions long beyond the point where it would be sensible to quit or

change the course. By defining decision points in the project process, time frames for evaluating

risks, social as well as technical, can be determined. Within in the different time frames, project

management need to determine how different stakeholders may affect project completion in

order to set the correct course of actions, at every single decision point, with the main purpose of

achieving an acceptance for the project from its stakeholders. Thus the main purpose of this

evaluation is to avoid escalation in project decision-making, due to the lack of knowledge of

stakeholder demands and conflicts. This paper discusses the phenomenon of escalation and

presents a hypothetical model how a project management could determine and define these

decision points, with consideration to risk and stakeholder management. Furthermore this paper

suggests how a project management team could use these decision points as a tool for

construction projects to set the right course of action in different stages of the project, due to the

perceived affect different stakeholders has on project completion.

Avdelning/ar

  • Construction Management

Publiceringsår

2003

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

311-320

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

[Host publication title missing]

Dokumenttyp

Konferensbidrag

Förlag

Department of Construction Management, Lund Institute of Technology

Ämne

  • Construction Management

Nyckelord

  • Risk analysis
  • Construction projects
  • Escalation
  • Stakeholder analysis

Conference name

3rd Nordic Conference, Construction Economics and Organization, Lund University, 2003

Conference date

2003-04-23

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISBN: 91-974618-0-6