Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Volume 34, Issue 7, Pages 1214-1225Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijproman.2016.06.005
Keywords
Social network analysis; Stakeholder theory; Construction project management; Review
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [71390523, 71471136, 71501142]
- Young Scholar Programs for Arts, Humanities and Social Science of Tongji University [20150856]
- Chinese Mainland University of Hong Kong Polytechnic University
- Taiwan University of Hong Kong Polytechnic University
- Macao University of Hong Kong Polytechnic University
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Over the past two decades, social network analysis (SNA) has elicited increasing attention in construction project management (CPM) research as a response to the emerging perspective of viewing projects as network-based organizational organizations. However, a thorough review of SNA application in CPM research is unavailable. This study aims to address this gap by reviewing 63 SNA papers published in eight peer-reviewed journals from 1997 to 2015 to ascertain the status of this research area and identify future research directions. The papers are analyzed in terms of institutional and individual contribution, citations, topic coverage and research design and methodologies. Three research directions, namely, internal stakeholder networks for outcome-related values, external stakeholder networks for process-related values, and external stakeholder networks for outcome-related values, are identified. The findings of this study are believed to provide useful references for the future application of SNA in CPM research. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. APM and IPMA. All rights reserved.
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