(1a) What are the key, relatively stable, institutional elements and differences between them that affect the behavior of global project participants, local hosts, and interested parties? Can we identify, categorize, and assess them?

(1b) How do the demands associated with the varying technical and engineering features of infrastructural construction projects affect the design of corporate governance systems intended to manage them?

(2a) What attributes of global infrastructure projects appear to invite opposition by domestic or international actors?

(2b) What crucial goal differences, and political dynamics catalyze conflicts between project participants, local hosts, and interested parties? Can we identify, categorize, and assess them?

(2c) What characteristics of host countries are associated with more or less institutional or "contentious" opposition to large-scale development projects?

(3a) What types of governance structures--including public, private, and voluntary sector forms--are erected to oversee these participants and interests? Which of their features appear to be associated with project success or failure?

(3b) Which specific governance mechanisms operating at various levels- including types of contracts, leader behaviors, inter-team coordination systems, corporate strategies, mediating structures, and modes of organizing--can project participants and stakeholder groups utilize to reconcile institutional differences and emergent stakeholder conflicts?

Posted by rjorr at June 1, 2006 3:17 PM