Abstract
Governmental governance is an emerging concept in the area of governance and is critical to the success of megaprojects. The aims of this study are to investigate the impact of governmental governance on megaproject performance and to identify the most critical component of governmental governance. To achieve these goals, a conceptual framework of governmental governance and a comprehensive framework of megaproject performance were established first, followed by proposing a research hypothesis that governmental governance could contribute to megaproject performance. To test the hypothesis, data collected by a questionnaire administered to 239 professionals were analyzed using partial least squares structural equation modelling. Results showed that governmental governance could contribute to megaproject performance significantly. It also reported that “public monitoring and scrutiny” was the most critical latent variable of governmental governance on megaproject performance, followed by “systemic risk management,” “regulatory oversight,” “construction of clean government,” “strategic planning,” and “institutional design.” This study has contributed to the body of knowledge of governmental governance by investigating its impact on megaproject performance. The findings from this study are useful to the industry as well, because they can enhance practitioners’ understanding of governmental governance, which could help them improve their management of megaprojects eventually.
Highlights
In light of the existing literature, this study proposed a comprehensive framework that can assess the performance of megaprojects, which is comprised of three latent variables: primary goals of project (PGP), stakeholder satisfaction (SS) and sustainability of project (SoP)
Resettlement is involuntary to most of the residents affected by megaprojects (Jackson & Sleigh, 2000), and civil disorder might occur if the resettlement is poorly planned and managed (Shi et al 2015)
This study investigated the impacts of adopting governmental governance on megaprojects performance and identified the critical components of governmental governance that can help improve megaproject performance
Summary
Over the past decades megaprojects have been increasingly built worldwide because they are crucial to economic growth and social prosperity (Hu et al, 2016; Söderlund et al, 2017) Despite the prosperity of megaprojects, it is a truism that megaprojects are confronted with various problems such as extreme technical and social complexity, poor delivery, poor performance of construction safety, and severe impact on society, human conditions, and environment (Callegari et al, 2018; Flyvbjerg, 2011) To address these problems, project governance, an approach that is beyond management and dealing with complexity, has been widely used in managing megaprojects, trying to ensure the success of megaprojects (Müller & Lecoeuvre, 2014; Pitsis et al, 2014; van Marrewijk & Smits, 2016)
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