The Effect of Project Vital Activities on Project and the Mediating Role of Stakeholder Engagement in Government Building Construction Projects

Abstract

This research article aims to analysis the effect of project vital activities (Corruption, political intervention, and Risk mitigation) on project performance through stakeholder engagement in Building construction projects. The research follows a mixed approach, utilizing structured questions, and interview as the primary method of data collection. The research design was descriptive and explanatory. The target population consists of ten building construction projects, with a total of 1110 individuals those actively participate on the project when the research movement. A stratified sampling strategy had employed to conduct a sample size of 222 participants. And for interview purposive sampling was conducted to select 4 from the stratified sample size of the research. Primary data collected through structured interviews with project managers, contractors, government officials, and key stakeholders. The collected data processed and analyzed using structural equation modeling (SEM) in AMOS software and SPSS v26 software was used for analysis of the data. The research findings show that in building construction projects project vital activities which are project risk mitigation, political intervention, and Corruption has a significant effect on project performance through stakeholder engagement. The researcher recommends that there should attention for both stakeholder engagement and anticorruption rules and regulation for risk mitigation and better project performance.

Keywords: Stakeholder engagement, Risk mitigation, Political Intervention, corruption, project vital activities

DOI: 10.7176/JCSD/74-03

Publication date: January 30^th 2025