Identifying a Theoretical Framework for Megaprojects Success and Failure Factors: A Meta-Synthesis Approach

Megaproject means projects with a wide range of efforts to achieve strategic goals in time, financial and qualitative macro frameworks. Megaprojects have deep, comprehensive and lasting outcomes. For this reason, it is important to identify the factors related to megaprojects success and failure. This research aims to identify a theoretical framework for megaproject success and failure factors with a meta-synthesis approach. The research is applicable with a qualitative methodological approach and meta-study strategic approach. The statistical population includes megaproject management research, sampling method is judgmental, and sample size is 23. The research data analysis method includes the steps of extracting and coding data, analyzing in case-specific level, synthesis on cross-study level, and building theory with meta-synthesis. Theoretical framework of megaprojects success and failure factors has 139 concepts, 21 subcategories and 6 categories. These categories include local level, national level, governance level, international level, available capital and megaproject management process. In this theoretical framework, the categories of local level, national level and governance level have mutual influence on each other. These categories also have effect on available capital. Available capital also has effects on megaproject management process. Ignoring cultural capital and symbolic capital and focusing on physical capital and social capital is evident in megaproject management research. Also Ignoring or exaggerating international factors is evident in megaproject management research. While, in this research international factors identified as a contextual factor in the network of supra-causal relationships of the success and failure factors of megaprojects.