Managing sustainability in a complex urban development project a stakeholder engagement approach to a wicked problem

Tämän Pro Gradu tutkimuksen tavoite on selvittää, miten sidosryhmäyhteistyö voi auttaa kestävyyden johtamista kompleksisessa kaupunkikehityshankkeessa, sekä edistää sidosryhmäyhteistyöhön liittyvää tutkimusta, joka on saanut rakennusalalla toistaiseksi liian vähän huomiota. Akuutti...

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Main Author: Korva, Meri
Other Authors: Kauppakorkeakoulu, School of Business and Economics, Taloustieteet, Business and Economics, Jyväskylän yliopisto, University of Jyväskylä
Format: Master's thesis
Language:eng
Published: 2021
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description Tämän Pro Gradu tutkimuksen tavoite on selvittää, miten sidosryhmäyhteistyö voi auttaa kestävyyden johtamista kompleksisessa kaupunkikehityshankkeessa, sekä edistää sidosryhmäyhteistyöhön liittyvää tutkimusta, joka on saanut rakennusalalla toistaiseksi liian vähän huomiota. Akuutti tarve entistä kestävämmälle kehitykselle yhdistettynä yhä jatkuvaan kaupungistumiseen osoittaa, että alalla tarvitaan lisää sekä teoreettista ymmärrystä että tehokkaita käytännön toimia, jotta urbaani kasvu voi jatkua ilman lisääntyviä ympäristöön ja yhteiskuntaan kohdistuvia haittavaikutuksia. Kaupunkikehitys tuo yhteen laajan kirjon toimijoita ja yksittäisen kaupunkikehityshankkeen sidosryhmäkenttä näyttäytyy entistä laajempana ja kompleksisempana. Näin ollen tarvitaan yhä enemmän yhteistyötä moninaisten toimijoiden kesken. Vastausta siihen, miten sidosryhmäyhteistyö voi auttaa kehittämään kestävyyden johtamista kompleksisessa kaupunkikehityshankkeessa on etsitty tässä tutkimuksessa kirjallisuuskatsauksen ja kaksivaiheisen empiirisen tiedonkeräysvaiheen avulla, jossa mukana oli niin sisäisiä sidosryhmiä case-projekti Trigonista kuin myös asiantuntijoita kestävän kaupunkikehityksen kentältä. Kestävyyteen liittyvää kompleksisuutta on tarkasteltu tässä tutkimuksessa pirullisten ongelmien diskurssin avulla. Tämä lähestymistapa osoittautui soveltuvaksi risteykseen, jossa kohtaavat rakennushankkeiden perinteiset ja tehokkaat lineaariset ongelmanratkaisumallit, sekä se kompleksisuus ja ne epävarmuudet, jotka kestävän kehityksen integroiminen tuo mukanaan. Tässä tutkimuksessa hyödynnettiin konseptuaalista viitekehystä, joka rakentui kuuden tunnistetun epävarmuuskategorian ympärille. Sen avulla tarkasteltiin pirullisille ongelmille ominaista dikotomiaa pirstaleisuuden ja koherenssin välillä. Näin pyrittiin selvittämään, miten kestävyyden integroimisen pirullista ongelmaa tulisi käsitellä kompleksisten kaupunkikehityshankkeiden kontekstissa. Tutkimuksen perusteella tehokas ja tavoitteellinen sidosryhmäyhteistyö on olennaista kollektiivisen älykkyyden valjastamisessa ja koherenssin rakentamisessa. Se ei kuitenkaan yksin riitä torjumaan pirstaloitumista, vaan tarvitsee tuekseen soveltuvan kestävyyden johtamisen viitekehyksen, joka huomioi projektien elinkaaren. The aim of this Master’s Thesis study is to uncover how a stakeholder engagement approach might improve the overall sustainability management of complex urban development projects, and contribute to sustainability management research in the area of stakeholder engagement that calls for additional attention, particularly in the construction field. The urgent need for sustainability transition coupled with the on-going process of urbanization, suggests that both theoretical insight and effective practical action is needed to ensure that urban growth can be decoupled from detrimental environmental and societal effects. Urban development brings together a host of actors, and the stakeholder field of any given urban development project is wide and increasingly complex, leading to a need for collaboration among a host of heterogeneous actors. An answer to how stakeholder engagement can help with sustainability management in complex construction projects is sought in this study through a review of relevant literature and a two-part empirical data collection involving the internal stakeholders of the case project, Trigoni, and expert stakeholders in the field of sustainable urban development. The complexity inherent to sustainability is examined here through the wicked problems discourse. This approach is determined particularly suitable for the intersection between the linear problem-solving models traditionally – and successfully – applied in construction projects for general management purposes and the complexity and uncertainties that come with sustainability-incorporation. A conceptual framework structured around six identified categories of uncertainty is utilized in this study to explore the dichotomy between fragmentation and coherence and to discover how the wicked problem of sustainability-incorporation should be dealt with in the context of complex urban development projects. Based on this study it seems that stakeholder engagement, when carried out in an effective and goal-directed manner, is essential to harnessing collective intelligence and boosting coherence. Yet, it is not enough in itself to prevent fragmentation and should therefore be accompanied by an appropriate sustainability management frame- work that takes project life-cycle into account.
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title_full Managing sustainability in a complex urban development project : a stakeholder engagement approach to a wicked problem
title_fullStr Managing sustainability in a complex urban development project : a stakeholder engagement approach to a wicked problem Managing sustainability in a complex urban development project : a stakeholder engagement approach to a wicked problem
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topic urban development sustainability Yritysten ympäristöjohtaminen Corporate Environmental Management 20425 rakentaminen kestävä kehitys sidosryhmät ilkeät ongelmat projektinhallinta construction sustainable development stakeholder groups wicked problems project management
topic_facet 20425 Corporate Environmental Management Yritysten ympäristöjohtaminen construction ilkeät ongelmat kestävä kehitys project management projektinhallinta rakentaminen sidosryhmät stakeholder groups sustainability sustainable development urban development wicked problems
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