Sustainability has become crucial in today’s business landscape. Customers, suppliers, partners, and investors are increasingly demanding that companies be aware of their impacts on the environment and society. Achieving sustainability in business operations, including social, economic, and environmental aspects, is one of the major challenges for companies today. Integrating sustainability into project managem...
In today's rapidly evolving business landscape, effective project management is vital for achieving business goals and maintaining competitiveness. Organizations are increasingly adopting project management methodologies and investing in the necessary skills and tools. This study aims to enhance resource management in industrialization projects by optimizing resource allocation and utilization while minimizing ...
A Systematic Literature Review (SLR) on the Resource-Constrained Multi-Project Scheduling Problem (RCMPSP), Uncertainty, and Resource Flexibility (human resource) is presented in this study. The main purpose is to help scholars with an overview of existing techniques and to identify new research directions. After applying exclusion criteria, 107 papers were analysed (2013-2023). The methodology adopted for this...
The selection for the location of complex infrastructures, such as airports, constitutes a challenging decision-making process due to its potential socioeconomic impacts alongside other complex factors that impact the decision process. Within this scope, this article proposes a Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) framework to analyze and evaluate potential airport locations to select the most suitable one amo...
Good corporate governance, which influences organizational performance, is the foundation of effective internal control. Adopting a governance paradigm, however, presents difficulties. By identifying and mapping processes and data, Enterprise Architecture (EA) may help with changes. Key Performance Indicators (KPI) provide important indicators for organizational activities. By employing a structured Balanced Sc...
This paper makes a theoretical contribution by exploring the integration of sustainability principles into project management. It compares two recent methodologies, PM2 and PRiSMTM, and provides a practical contribution by advocating for the adoption of these sustainability-driven practices among practitioners. Sustainability remains relatively unknown in the realm of project management, and this study aims to ...
University-Industry R&D collaboration (UIC) project is a temporary organization with a collaborative work environment, with heterogeneous partners who have collective responsibilities, and seek to grant benefits to their different stakeholders. This paper aims to gather and bring understanding into what these benefits are, and, through a systematic literature review (SLR) develops a catalog of these benefits in...
This paper presents an integrated methodology for managing industrialisation projects combining know-how, abilities, instruments, and project management tools and techniques to fulfil more efficiently and effectively industrialisation requirements. Different research methods were used during an in-depth case study involving seven researchers over three years at an automotive industry company. Firstly, internal ...
In this article a deep search of the literature of online scheduling is conducted. This paper intends to assess the developments and solutions found for online scheduling problems. Online scheduling is a very important topic since most of the real scheduling problems have dynamic characteristics. First, it was developed a literature review about scheduling problems, dividing them in stochastic and deterministic...
The textile and clothing industry is one of the most important sectors in the Portuguese economy, operating in a market that is increasingly competitive, globalized and characterized by short lifecycles and consumer volatility. This leads to an increased need for agility and speed by manufacturers, in order to respond to the market demands. Thus, it becomes important to companies in the sector to understand and...