March 29, 2024
Mehrdad Sarhadi

Mehrdad Sarhadi

Academic Rank: Assistant professor
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Degree: Ph.D in Architecture Engineering
Phone: 077
Faculty: Faculty of Art and Architecture

Research

Title Stakeholder Analysis in the Feasibility Process of Projects: A Structural Evaluation of the Power-Oriented Relationship
Type Article
Keywords
construction project, stakeholders’ participation, power-oriented relationship, feasibility study, structure/agency dualism
Journal Project Management Journal
DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/8756972821999499
Researchers Mehrdad Sarhadi (First researcher) , Sogand Hasanzadeh (Second researcher) , Seyed Hosein Hoseini (Third researcher)

Abstract

The feasibility process of public construction projects is under the influence of stakeholders, who give direction to public resource allocation. Therefore, the analysis of stakeholders in this process is critical. An inductive qualitative approach was adopted using the grounded theory method to provide a theoretical explanation of stakeholders’ behaviors. Under the insight of structuration theory, the results indicated that the challenges are derived from various interrelated factors, leading to the emergence of improper participation as a macro-structural phenomenon with multilateral interaction with a power-oriented relationship as a micro behavior in the feasibility process at the agency level.