Industrial Engineering and Management Systems

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Investigating the Relationship of Sustainability Factors with Project Management Success

  • Khalilzadeh, Mohammad (Department of Industrial Engineering, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch) ;
  • Akbari, Hassan (Department of Industrial Engineering, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch) ;
  • Foroughi, Amin (Department of Industrial Engineering, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch)
  • Received : 2016.11.28
  • Accepted : 2016.12.12
  • Published : 2016.12.30
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Abstract

One of the main concerns of the present age, is attending to the issue of sustainability that in recent decades, the concept of it has grown in terms of recognition and importance. Sustainability have defined further the development of the welfare and living standards of the present generation, without the lives of future generations is at stake. One of these tasks of the business is project management and today, "green or sustainable project management" as one of the most important global trends of project management have been identified. The issue of present study was to investigate the relationship of sustainability factors with success of a project. The population of the research consists of directors of oil and gas in the South Pars region including 150 people that according to Cochran formula, the number of samples were obtained 108 people. In this study, data collection was conducted based on a structured questionnaire that from a sample set of questions was used for sustainability impact on 6 scale of project management success. For this purpose, the whole five-item Likert has been used. Also for statistical analysis, PLS software was used. The results of path analysis at confidence level of 95%, showed a significant relationship exists between "sustainability factor" and "project success criteria." Since the correlation coefficient is positive, so this type of relationship is positive. Thus all the hypotheses at confidence level of 95 percent was confirmed and it became clear that there is a significant positive relationship between "sustainability factors" and "project success criteria."

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