Managing mega-projects
Managing mega-projects in the contemporary world today incorporates technological, economic, and aesthetic aspects. According to Guo et al. (2020), the technical aspect of assessing a mega-projects network’s vulnerability is the initiation of metrics into the network. Critically, the analogy might not be efficient due to inaccurate data achieved from the study. Notably, managing mega-projects’ aesthetic value stems out in the sense that the individuals should conceptualize mega-projects with fresh eyes while accepting the beauty and aesthetic pleasure of a project. The mentioned perception provides a commonality in the article advancing theories and debates on mega-project studies. The narrative also provides the essence of conceptualizing case studies while theorizing relevant topics in project studies. In light of Geraldi, Söderlund, and Marrewijk (2020), theoretical arguments on debates and advancements justify what is right at the end of the project. Thus, the article on Advancing Theory and Debate in Project Studies and the Conflicting Notions of a Project article establish commonalities.
The essence of Vaagaasar, Hernes & Dille’s (2020) article contradicting its narrative is that temporal shifts in an organization lead to ineffective function of a mega-project activity in the society. However, the report also advocates for historical temporal change that presents a future conceptualization of a project. This narrative also provides a similarity administered by Kreiner (2020) on mega-projects’ conceptualization for aesthetic pleasures. Sergeeva and Ali (2020), provide a comprehensive analysis of transport infrastructure as a mega-project. The article tends to contradict all other reports in the sense that the paper establishes forms of overall leadership through the Project Management Office (PMO). Unlike Sergeeva and Ali’s article, other articles only embrace theories, analogies, stylistic devices, active reasoning, and data sampling. For example, a mega-project’s technological aspect requires data analysis and assesses vulnerabilities in a mega-project network, as depicted by Guo et al. (2020). As a result, the infrastructural aspect of a mega-project facilitates the economic values of managing projects in society.
The five articles also provided apparent limitations, especially aspects such as incoherency, narcissism, inaccurate acquisition of empirical data, politically ultra-corrections, and unfair equal opportunities that sounded evident in the context. Some of the aspects are repeated in once in the articles hence making them obvious limitations and that the need for further studies is inevitable. For instance, Kreiner (2020) and Geraldi, Söderlund, and Marrewijk’s (2020) limitations are the same because they provide a sense of commonality between the two articles. In this regard, there is a need for further studies in related research.