Special Issue on Managing Disaster Recovery Projects
Mon, 08 Jun 2015 14:37:00 BST
GDRC’s Professor Richard Haigh is one of the Guest Editors of the International Journal of Project Management on Managing Disaster Recovery Projects
The Project Management Institute (2005) shows that for disaster recovery projects there is no instant ‘fix’, but order and progress can be achieved if parties involved in reconstruction have the appropriate knowledge and tools for managing these projects. Despite the recognition of the role a project management approach plays in post-disaster recovery, the different project management methods, techniques and systems in disaster recovery have not been widely investigated. Although there is a considerable literature on disaster management, there is very little reference within it to the application of project management. Furthermore, there is a lack of in-depth cases including studies of processes and real-time disaster events that can increase understanding about how project management practice could be improved in disaster recovery projects.
Accordingly, this special issue is aimed at addressing the above-mentioned agenda by linking project management with post-disaster recovery projects.
Scholars are invited to submit research papers on disaster recovery project management case studies, project issues and best practices that have had significant contributions to the success of disaster recovery projects.
Topics may include but not limited to:
- The role of project management methods in attaining successful disaster recovery
- The methods, tools, processes, practices and/or knowledge areas used in managing disaster recovery projects
- Experience and lessons in managing large disaster recovery projects (what worked, what didn’t and why)
- Governance and organization of disaster recovery projects
- Stakeholders management and coordination
- Factors affecting the success of managing disaster recovery projects
- Measuring the performance of disaster recovery projects
- Incorporation of disaster resilience paradigm in managing disaster recovery projects
- Solving wicked problems in disaster recovery
- Professionalism and disaster recovery
For submission process and associated time scales, please visit: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/international-journal-of-project-management/call-for-papers/special-issue-managing-disaster-recovery-projects/
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