Browsing Theses for Project Management by Issue Date
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Developing a Framework for Implementing Public Private Partnerships in a Research Reactor Project in the United Arab Emirates
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2015-04)Public private partnerships (PPP) procurement instruments have been very popular tools for developing projects around the world. This is largely due to their success in bringing quality, efficiency, innovation, funds, ... -
Factors Impacting the Adoption and Implementation of Business Intelligence and Analytics Projects in Organizations
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2016-05)The main aim of this research is to increase the understanding of why some organizations invest in and adopt Business Intelligence and Analytics (BI&A) projects while others do not. BI&A projects are defined in this ... -
An Uncertainty Based Genetic Algorithm Approach for Project Resource Scheduling
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2016-10)This research is tackling the issue of complex resources scheduling in project management. In traditional planning tools, resource allocation is sequence based. This normally results in a very simple baseline schedule. ... -
Determinants of Employee Resistance to Change for Optimised Organisational Performance in the UAE
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2017-02)Employee resistance is one of the most important problems in organization restructuring management. It has a huge impact on how any proposed change initiative in the organization will succeed. Employee’s cooperation with ... -
Project Managers’ Competencies in Managing the People Elements of Change within the United Arab Emirates
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2017-02)The aim of this research is to investigate the roles and competencies of project managers in managing change in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The study focuses on people management. While some of the previous research ... -
Diffusion of ICT Innovations in UAE Public Schools and The Role of Stakeholder Engagement
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2017-03)ICT innovations played a vital role in driving last century developments characterised as the digital revolution introducing unprecedented opportunities across different life sectors. This digital revolution is expected ... -
The effect of stakeholder integration on open innovation in construction projects
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2017-04)This thesis investigates the effect of stakeholder integration on innovation effectiveness in an open innovation context in sustainable construction projects. It delivers an original contribution to knowledge by developing ... -
The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) on the firms’ Financial Performance and Value Creation: the case of Publicly Listed firms in the United Arab Emirates
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2017-05)CSR is the Corporate Social Responsibility of a business which includes the economic, legal, ethical, and discretionary expectations that society has of corporate at a given point in time. Several studies have sprung out ... -
An investigation into the Impact of Operational Readiness Factors on the Success of Airports Projects in the UAE
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2017-05)In traditional project management literature, we notice the absence of a dedicated phase for operations and maintenance preparation and support for the newly completed product. Consultants, contractors and project managers ... -
The Influence of Managers’ Personality Traits on Taking Project Risky Decisions
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2017-06)Several studies had explored the topic of individuals’ risk propensity related to general life domains such as: health, career, financial, safety and social. Yet, there is little research that was conducted specifically ... -
Ambidexterity through Project Portfolio Management Resolving paradoxes in organizations
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2017-06)This thesis aims to build an understanding of how ambidexterity can be achieved in Project Based Organizations (PBOs). Ambidexterity is the organizational ability to simultaneously explore market and exploit knowledge and ... -
Managing CSR projects and programmes in the UAE
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2017-09)Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is an increasingly influential concept, which is usually claimed to be implemented more in the West than in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and MENA region, where it is portrayed ... -
Modelling Risks for Physical Security Assets Development and Operation in High-Value Retailer Projects in the UAE
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2017-12)As the drive towards efficiency and effectiveness in infrastructure spending intensifies, the topic of WLCC (Whole Lifecycle Costing) has taken added importance, aligned with the general mandate of providing the best value ... -
Evaluating the role of environmental concern, risk perception and stakeholder salience in driving sustainable water consumption within sustainability project initiatives in the UAE hospitality sector
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2017-12)The global water scarcity problem and unsustainable water consumption hinders the realisation of sustainability goals, therefore, the aim of this thesis is to empirically examine the influence of individual and stakeholder ... -
The influence of project managers’ competencies on the delivery of successful innovation in projects
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2018-02)This thesis investigates the influence of project manager innovation competencies on the delivery of successful innovation in projects in the United Arab Emirates. The objectives of this thesis are to critically investigate ... -
The Knowledge-Evolving Project: An Exploratory Study of Knowing Acts in a Digitisation Project
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2018-03)The aim of this research thesis is to explore the knowledge exploitation practices that drive the knowledge evolution spiral of project knowledge management. This is different to the conventional knowledge creation spiral ... -
Enablers and Barriers to Knowledge sharing in the UAE infrastructural projects
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2018-03)The sharing of knowledge could be a catalyst for achieving organisational goals more quickly, or it could also be a means to a poor ending of a project. Recent researches have recognised the complications of knowledge ... -
Programme Management Success: A Study of the UAE Utilities Sector
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2018-03)There has been increasing interest in programme management which is used as a means to implement strategy, develop and maintain new capabilities in order to manage change. This research aims to understand the phenomenon ... -
The relationship between Determinants of Risk Governance assurance and efficacy of the Public projects in the Government of Dubai from the perspective of Internal Audit Function
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2018-04)The government of Dubai has been heavily focusing on the public sector and investing in the infrastructural development of mega-projects to support and increase the economic growth of the nation and have reliable alternatives ... -
Value Co-Creation using Activity Theory: Cord Blood Donor Recruitment in Hospitals
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2018-08)Donor management involves major activities including recruitment, invitation, selection, and donation processes. Donor recruitment is one of the critical stages that ensures sufficient amounts of blood are received at blood ...