Critical Factors Contribute to Construction Project Success : Study of Success Factors in Relation to the Project Size
Alshami, Waseem (2018)
Alshami, Waseem
Metropolia Ammattikorkeakoulu
2018
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2018092215307
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2018092215307
Tiivistelmä
Construction industry constitutes a considerable proportion of the national economies of many countries. Therefore, success in this competitive, complex and high-risk business is of a special importance. This success has been thoroughly researched attempting to avoid failures in construction projects that are increasingly reported. Nevertheless, the majority of the previous studies focused on success in general without considering the project’s attributes but just mentioning them as possible influencers over the success factors. Therefore, this research conducts a positivistic, cross-sectional, and deductive study approach, attempting to identify the most important success factors in construction projects and their interrelation and correlation with the size of the project.
This thesis consists of four main chapters after the introduction chapter. In the first chapter, a thorough literature review is conducted to provide a clear picture of the current situation of the construction industry in general and construction project management in specific, and to identify how projects are categorized. In addition, this chapter introduces success criteria and success factors from previous works. The research methodology is discussed in the third chapter, which justifies the research philosophy and explains the total framework of the thesis. Moreover, building the semi-structured interviews and the survey, which are the main tools used in this research to collect the primary data, is also explained thoroughly in this chapter along with the pilot study. Analyzing primary data that was collected using the abovementioned tools is conducted in the fourth chapter. Moreover, determining success factors and the correlation between them and with the projects’ sizes are the main part of this chapter.
Finally, the fifth chapter will provide the conclusion of this research and the recommendations that might be important for future studies that will be conducted in this field. The results of this research emphasize the importance of certain success factors and also show that success factors could be divided into two groups, the level of importance of first group’s factors is not related to the sizes of the project, while in the second group the level of importance for each factor varies from one project size to another.
This thesis consists of four main chapters after the introduction chapter. In the first chapter, a thorough literature review is conducted to provide a clear picture of the current situation of the construction industry in general and construction project management in specific, and to identify how projects are categorized. In addition, this chapter introduces success criteria and success factors from previous works. The research methodology is discussed in the third chapter, which justifies the research philosophy and explains the total framework of the thesis. Moreover, building the semi-structured interviews and the survey, which are the main tools used in this research to collect the primary data, is also explained thoroughly in this chapter along with the pilot study. Analyzing primary data that was collected using the abovementioned tools is conducted in the fourth chapter. Moreover, determining success factors and the correlation between them and with the projects’ sizes are the main part of this chapter.
Finally, the fifth chapter will provide the conclusion of this research and the recommendations that might be important for future studies that will be conducted in this field. The results of this research emphasize the importance of certain success factors and also show that success factors could be divided into two groups, the level of importance of first group’s factors is not related to the sizes of the project, while in the second group the level of importance for each factor varies from one project size to another.