Abstract
The shift towards sustainable business practices calls for transforming organisations’ products, services, processes, policies, and resources. As primary drivers of change, projects should inherently integrate sustainability principles throughout their lifecycle. This sustainability-driven approach has given rise to sustainable project management, a key global trend that embeds environmental, social, and economic considerations into project management. Despite its growth, a gap remains in understanding how project management and sustainability principles can be synergised to promote sustainable project benefits delivery practices. This paper addresses this gap by integrating sustainability elements and project management principles to develop a Sustainable Entrepreneurial Project Management (S-EPM) framework. The S-EPM framework underscores entrepreneurial strategies such as cadence, creativity, flexibility, innovativeness and risk-taking through the lens of sustainable development in advancing project management practice. This framework provides practitioners with a structured approach to embed sustainability throughout the project lifecycle, bridging entrepreneurship and contemporary project management. S-EPM aims to deliver immediate organisational value and contribute to long-term environmental and social outcomes.
Presenters
Md Lutfur RahmanPhD Researcher, Tasmanian School of Business and Economics, University of Tasmania, Australia
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
Economic, Social, and Cultural Context
KEYWORDS
Sustainable Project Management, Entrepreneurial Project Management, Built Environment, Project Management
