The relationships between key stakeholders’ project performance and project success: Perceptions of Chinese construction supervising engineers

Abstract

Using a questionnaire to survey Chinese construction supervising engineers, this study concerns with the questions of how the engineers evaluate project success and to what extent key project stakeholders’ performance correlates with project success. The results show that the engineers use “relation/ guanxi” among the key stakeholders as the most important criterion of project success while using the golden-triangle criteria; the stakeholders’ project performance positively correlates with each other; project owners play the most important role in determining project success, and project management organizations’ performance as the single point of project responsibility has significant correlations with project success criteria.