Abstract
The study is based on validating and exploring the effects of a mega project plan (CPEC) on infrastructure development and Sustainable Project Management. The CPEC has great importance to infrastructure development and economy-boosting. The current study's primary aim is to deal with environmental protection, economic boost up, international relations influencing to the Project's success. The paper also addressed project management as a moderator between environmental protection, economic boost up, international relations, and the CPEC project's success. The primary data has been gathered by using questionnaires, and PLS-SEM has been employed for the analysis. The results revealed that environmental protection, economy boost up, and international relations have a positive association with the success of CPEC. The outcomes also exposed that project management moderating among the nexus of economy boosts up the international relations and success of CPEC. The present study results guided how Pakistan and China make the CPEC project stronger with the efficient implementation of practices required for protecting the environment, with the economic growth and boost up, and good strong relations with foreign countries. This study was an attempt to validate the different factors to check their association with each other in a new environment, resulting in a leading edge for the success of mega projects that influence project management.
Highlights
The CPEC is the initiative of China’s one belt one road initiative
The results revealed that environmental protection, economy boost up, international relations have a positive association with the success of CPEC and accept H1, H2, and H3
The results have shown that the economy boost up has a positive association with the CPEC project’s success
Summary
The CPEC is the initiative of China’s one belt one road initiative. The development of infrastructure and other improvements in economic, political, environmental, and regional aspects is tremendous. Under this CPEC program, several modern and groundbreaking initiatives have begun. The decline in corruption would boost overall economic growth as far as sustainable growth is concerned (Abdullah et al, 2021). The loans for capital growth amounted to $11 billion These loans certainly help Pakistan’s economic growth. Another significant industrial growth development is that a building project on liquefied oil and gas pipeline has already started (Shahbaz et al, 2019; Mamirkulova et al, 2020; Sarfraz et al, 2020a,b; Ullah et al, 2020; Zaman et al, 2021)
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