1st Edition

External Stakeholder Management in Projects

Edited By Johan Ninan Copyright 2026
272 Pages 29 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

272 Pages 29 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

External stakeholders in projects across sectors, such as infrastructure, policy, healthcare, and communication, are the set of users, special interest groups, and actors that are not a party to the contract but are socially or economically affected by the outcomes of the project. Since these projects create environmental, social, and political disruptions in their environment, these external... Read more

Chapter 1: External Stakeholder Management in Projects: Taking Stock and Moving Forward

Johan Ninan

Chapter 2: The Locus and Modus of External Stakeholder Engagement in Projects: A Systematic Literature Review

Aritra Halder 

Chapter 3: Transforming the External Stakeholder Engagement Process within PPP Infrastructure Projects

Lachlan Roberts, Koorosh Gharehbaghi, and Kerry McManus

Chapter 4: External Stakeholder Engagement in Complex Infrastructure Projects: Structured Approaches and Contextual Insights

Diego Peñaranda-Correa, Jose Guevara, and Gabriel Castelblanco

Chapter 5: Critical External Governance in Transport Infrastructure Projects

Jan-Erik Kvåle

Chapter 6: External Stakeholder Identification on Urban Construction Projects in Ireland

Michael R. Curran and John P. Spillane

Chapter 7: Stories from the Margins: Uncovering the Covert and Overt in Stakeholder Engagement through Critical Realist Narrative Analysis

Jessica Siva, Nathan West, and Thayaparan Gajendran

Chapter 8: External Stakeholder Management in Australian Road Projects: A Social Procurement Policy Lens

Kathriarachchige Dona Malsha Gimhani, Muhammad Jamaluddin Thaheem, Dominic Doe Ahiaga-Dagbui, and Asheem Shrestha

Chapter 9: Bridging Perspectives: Effective Governance of External Stakeholders in Complex Projects

Daryl Watkins, Valerie Denney, and Constantine Koursaris

Chapter 10: Multinational Enterprises’ Participation and External Stakeholder Management in Megaprojects

Hanyang Ma, Kangjuan Lv, and Kai Feng

Chapter 11: Toward Sustainable Sand Management in the Construction Industry: Leveraging Stakeholder Awareness and Engagement

Sheila M. Puffer and Adel A.Zadeh

Chapter 12: Place-Making through Stakeholder Participation in the Regeneration of Urban Areas

Carlos Martinez-Avila and Stefan Olander

Biography

Johan Ninan is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), the Netherlands. His research focuses on external stakeholder management, megaprojects, collaboration, innovation, and project organizing with a particular emphasis on the role of digital media. He has published in leading project management journals such as the International Journal of Project Management, the Project Management Journal, and Construction Management and Economics. He was awarded the IPMA Research Award, PMI Young Researcher Award, IPMA Global Young Researcher Award, and the APM Paper of the Year Award.