El. knyga: Sustainable Management of Transnational Megaprojects

"This scholarly work delves into the intricate realm of megaprojects, characterized by their colossal scale, complexity, and societal impact. It offers a comprehensive analysis of the multifaceted challenges that confront these ventures, spanning stakeholder conflicts, environmental, social, and economic sustainability concerns, and the unique characteristics of each project. The book presents a structured exploration, spanning seven chapters, which combine theoretical frameworks and empirical insights. It elucidates the fundamental components essential for sustainable megaproject management, emphasizing the significance of social responsibility. It establishes a crucial link between critical infrastructure and sustainable development, unraveling paradoxes. Furthermore, it scrutinizes the state of research in the field, highlights critical areas in accounting studies within the context of megaprojects, and identifies emerging research trends. The book concludes by examining a specific case study of a transnational megaproject. In sum, this scientific endeavor aims to address the pressing challenges of sustainable megaproject management, providing a holistic and systemic approach that accounts for all dimensions of sustainability and inclusive stakeholderengagement. It contributes to the evolving discourse on the governance and management of transnational megaprojects in a dynamically changing world"--

This book analyses the seminal role of megaprojects for sustainable development, and the related, complex challenges they bring. It provides insights into the growing social responsibilities that megaprojects have, not only to be environmentally sustainable, but also towards the multitude of stakeholders involved, whether directly or indirectly.After an historical overview of the increasingly necessary links between sustainable infrastructure and megaprojects, the book builds on and applies stakeholder theory to stakeholder engagement and management in megaprojects. It also emphasizes the importance of building impact assessment frameworks that consider the unheard voices that are often passively sitting at the receiving end of a megaproject, as well as the local context where the megaproject is embedded. The book then proceeds to analyse the case of a very contested transnational railway megaproject between Italy and France, the Turin-Lyon high-speed railway, which has been suffering from stakeholder and communication issues for over thirty years, as well as from notable managerial and legal differences in the two countries. In this way, the book informs both theory and practice and encourages scholarly interventions into wicked problems. It contains a comprehensive review of the academic literature on the sustainability, sustainability challenges, and sustainability reporting of megaprojects. Conceptual models, frameworks and future research opportunities are provided to clarify the empirical challenges and highlight the gaps and opportunities to be explored by researchers and practitioners in future.The audience for the book is both academic researchers and practitioners in the field of megaprojects and more specifically, those dealing with managing transnational megaprojects. It also includes several topics that will be of interest to policy and decision-makers.

This book analyses the seminal role of megaprojects for sustainable development, and the related, complex challenges they bring. It provides insights into the growing social responsibilities that megaprojects have, not only to be environmentally sustainable, but also towards the multitude of stakeholders involved.