Impact of sustainable project management on project plan and project success of the manufacturing firm: Structural model assessment.

Tay Chze Chow,Suhaiza Zailani,Miraj Ahmed Bhuiyan,Muhammad Khalilur Rahman,Ataul Karim Patwary,Zhang Qiannan,Rogis Baker

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0259819

Abstract

This study has aimed to investigate the impact of sustainable project management on sustainable project planning and success in manufacturing firms. Data was collected from project management professionals in a manufacturing firm in Malaysia. A total of 231 responses were analyzed using the partial least square (PLS) method. The findings revealed that sustainable project management has a significant impact on sustainable project success and sustainable project planning. Sustainable project planning is positively correlated with sustainable project success. The results also indicated that sustainable project planning mediates the effect of sustainable project management on sustainable project success. The findings have significant insight into the body of knowledge of the project life cycle and indicated that sustainable project planning is a crucial tool attributed to project management towards the project success of the manufacturing firm. The results can be used as a guideline for organizations, providing direction in project management to achieve sustainable development for business.

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Sustainability is the capacity to be maintained at a certain level
Sustainable project management consists of three major dimensions of the triple bottom line (TBL) such as economic, social and environmental, which measured with nine items adopted from Martens and Carvalho [23], using a five-point Likert scale ranging from 1 to 5
The findings revealed that sustainable project planning mediates the effect of sustainable project management on sustainable project success (β = 0.254, t = 7.321 and p

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Introduction

Sustainability is the capacity to be maintained at a certain level. Sustainability refers to project management’s economic, environmental, and social benefits in a manufacturing firm. Sustainability is an integral part of project management practices that maintain the economic, environmental, and social (triple bottom line) future benefits. [1] indicated sustainable project management (SPM) with Triple Bottom Line (TBL)—economic, environmental, and social has a significant impact on project success. SPM focuses on the planning, monitoring, controlling, and ensuring project delivery process along the project life cycle. Project managers are responsible for looking at the overview of project management

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