Title: Driving forces for multinational construction consortiums: the case of a Greek mega-project

Authors: Theodoros Kalogeropoulos; Konstantinos Kirytopoulos; Zoe Ventura

Addresses: School of Mechanical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece ' School of Mechanical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece ' Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece

Abstract: Multinational consortiums and teams are thought to be rather significant organisational structures in a globalised economy. Research in general, has exhibited four driving forces that strongly affect the successful deliverance of projects and that the project management team has to deal with: 1) power; 2) culture; 3) trust; 4) uncertainty and complexity. The aim of this study is to contribute to the area of successful collaboration of construction companies within multinational consortiums by investigating if the above-mentioned issues are also the driving forces for the successful multinational collaboration in construction consortiums and thus validate this theory. This paper deals with that issue, researching an emblematic mega project that demanded the alliance between two large construction companies of different nationalities (one Italian and one Greek). The results show that the driving forces of projects success can also navigate multinational consortiums to success.

Keywords: multinational consortiums; project; driving forces.

DOI: 10.1504/IJPOM.2025.145497

International Journal of Project Organisation and Management, 2025 Vol.17 No.1, pp.47 - 76

Received: 22 Mar 2023
Accepted: 28 Feb 2024
Published online: 01 Apr 2025 *

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