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    Toward a Systemic View to Cost Overrun Causation in Infrastructure Projects: A Review and Implications for Research

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    Authors
    Ahiaga-Dagbui, D.
    Love, Peter
    Smith, S.
    Ackermann, Fran
    Date
    2016
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Ahiaga-Dagbui, D. and Love, P. and Smith, S. and Ackermann, F. 2016. Toward a Systemic View to Cost Overrun Causation in Infrastructure Projects: A Review and Implications for Research. Project Management Journal. 48 (2): pp. 88-98.
    Source Title
    Project Management Journal
    Additional URLs
    http://www.pmi.org/PMJ
    ISSN
    8756-9728
    School
    School of Management
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/46969
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    Infrastructure cost overruns receive significant amount of attention in the academic literature as well as the popular press. The methodological weaknesses in the dominant approaches adopted to explain cost overrun causation on infrastructure projects are explored in this paper. A considerable amount of cost overrun research is superficial, replicative and thus stagnated the development of a robust theory to mitigate and contain the problem. Future research should move from single-cause identification and the traditional net-effect correlational analysis to a search for causal recipes through systems thinking and retrospective sensemaking to address the high-level interactions between multiple factors.

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