The Complexity of Sustainable Project Management
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2023) | Viewed by 5195
Special Issue Editors
Interests: operations management
Interests: project management and scheduling; reinforcement learning-based heuristics; sustainable logistics and physical internet
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are currently organizing a Special Issue entitled 'The Complexity of Sustainable Project Management'.
This Special Issue seeks to publish papers featuring novel research on this topic. Modern projects cannot ignore this critical issue and, therefore, project management is faced with unique and new challenges; not only do they need to be fiscally sound, but they also need to be socially and environmentally sustainable. This can be achieved by the adequate management of resources.
Obviously, this is only a partial description of the complexity of sustainable project management, as the concept of sustainability today also includes labor practices, human rights, fair business dealings, social responsibility and consumer issues.
The aim of this Special Issue is to cover the broad range of topics involved in sustainable project management. In the environment sphere, we welcome contributions on sustainable resource use, pol-lution prevention, and climate change mitigation. Community involvement and engagement is anoth-er major factor in sustainable project management, including employee training and skills develop-ment, wealth and income creation, and stakeholder management. Important issues in human resource management are work conditions, health and safety.
This Special Issue will focus both on projects that deliver sustainable goods or services and on projects delivered following sustainable processes. Original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include but are not limited to the following:
- Sustainable project management and the business case for sustainability;
- Evaluating the impact and integration of sustainability in project management tools and techniques;
- Critical factors, best practices and determinants for effective sustainable project management implementation;
- Project managers and the tradeoffs between sustainability-related objectives in decision making;
- Innovative sustainable project practices and applications.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Avraham Shtub
Dr. Claudio Szwarcfiter
Dr. Ran Etgar
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainable project management
- project management
- sustainability
- sustainable parameters
- project sustainability
- sustainable development
- environmental sustainability
- sustainable goods and services
- sustainable processes