This book is a novel contribution to a field dominated by conventional approaches to project management; it is about narratives in megaprojects. Among the questions examined in this original new book are:What are narratives?Why are they important in megaprojects?How are they formed and used in megaprojects?How do promotors of and protestors against megaprojects craft narratives to their advantage?What strategies can project managers emp...

External stakeholders in projects across sectors, such as infrastructure, policy, healthcare, and communication, are the set of users, special interest groups, and actors that are not a party to the contract but are socially or economically affected by the outcomes of the project. Since these projects create environmental, social, and political disruptions in their environment, these external stakeholders bear a majority of the project’s negative impacts. These stakeholders express their c...

The number of projects is increasing worldwide as traditional and repetitive tasks are carried out through automation. Projects being temporary and unique while being adopted globally across sectors presents a challenge for the effective management of environmental, economic, and social parameters. Projects are people centric and require the effective management of internal and external stakeholders. In the modern age, social media is seen as a tool that connects people across the world ha...