Social Constructivist Approach

Further, the study aims to understand how project-based organizations evaluate their large complex projects and explains the logic, criteria, perspective and methods of their evaluation process. Moreover, the study has relevance to the field of project management because the literature has overlooked how complex projects are evaluated. It appears that there is no agreement about how to evaluate complex projects. Thus, this research is expected to make a significant contribution to the project management evaluation field by improving our understanding about the logic used by different organizations to evaluate complex projects.
Such understanding will guide the researcher towards providing an improvement in the large complex project evaluation process. The findings will assist key stakeholders to manage large complex projects more effectively and efficiently.
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It identified the gap in project management research regarding the logic, criteria, perspectives and methods for the evaluation of complex projects. The key research components include the linking project complexity to project evaluation. This qualitative perspective adopts the social constructivism paradigm to provide a more effective and appropriate mode by which to answer the research questions. The social constructivist paradigm is most appropriate for the current research with its subjective epistemology, inductive reasoning as the strategy to theory development, qualitative methodology including: multiple case studies, narrative inquiry and constructivist grounded theory, and focus on understanding social and historical construction and theory