Track: Project Management
Abstract
Using 128 capital projects and a longitudinal design, this study finds a correlation between performance variables in the project-initiating and planning phases and project outcomes in the closing phase. Specifically, this study's structural model suggests that team and risk performance prior to project execution have a direct positive effect on project outcomes in the closing phase. Subsequent analyses show that team and communication performance prior to project execution possess the largest and second-largest effects on project outcomes, respectively. Our findings extend the current state of knowledge concerning not only the relationships among performance variables prior to project execution, but how these performance variables affect project outcomes in the closing phase.