Favoring resilience in increasingly complex environments. Development of an adaptive approach for Large Engineering Projects Management

Traditional methodologies for managing projects are too constraining to help organizations facing growing levels of complexity. Large Engineering Projects – here intended as large-scale, complex projects delivered through various partnerships between public and private organisations [van Marrewijk at al., 2007] – results as very complex to be managed as they invoke coordinated application of capital, sophisticated technology, intense planning and political influence [Gellert & Linch, 2003]. Adaptive methodologies seem to favour resilience in increasingly complex environments such as the ones in which LEPs are developed in.