Exploratory study of success factors for research and development projects run by SMEs in Quebec linked to secondary and tertiary aluminum production

Authors

  • Caroline Durand LemGP Université du Québec à Chicoutimi Canada
  • Christophe Leyrie LemGP Université du Québec à Chicoutimi Canada
  • Julien Bousquet LemGP Université du Québec à Chicoutimi Canada

Keywords:

Project, project management, success, criteria, factors, innovation management

Abstract

Despite extensive literature on the subject of success, there is no consensus. However, it is accepted that success is evaluated by certain criteria and that it is dependent on success factors. Moreover, these concepts can vary according to the type of company, project and especially the stakeholder evaluating them. Within this context, the present study will discuss these criteria and factors as applied to projects run by SMEs working in the secondary and tertiary aluminum industry. The aim of the study is to help create a generic model applicable within the specific field of R&D projects submitted to the Centre québécois de recherche et de développement de l’aluminium (Aluminum Research & Development Center of Quebec).

Author Biographies

  • Caroline Durand, LemGP Université du Québec à Chicoutimi Canada

    Caroline Durand holds a bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering and is a graduate student in project management at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC). She has been working for the Aluminum Research & Development Center of Quebec since 2013. She is interested the success criteria and factors of the SMEs innovation projects related to aluminum transformation.

  • Christophe Leyrie, LemGP Université du Québec à Chicoutimi Canada

    Christophe Leyrie holds a Master of Science in project management and a Doctorate of Science in business. He has been a professor of project management at the Université du Quebec à Chicoutimi (UQAC) since 2000 and he is currently in charge of this university Doctorate program in project management. He also acts as academic director of the Master program in project management that UQAC delivers in China. Christophe Leyrie is a member of the multidisciplinary studies laboratory in project management where his research interests center on project stakeholder management and organizational politics in projects.

  • Julien Bousquet, LemGP Université du Québec à Chicoutimi Canada

    Julien Bousquet, Ph.D., is a marketing professor at the University of Québec at Chicoutimi (UQAC) since 2003. He earned a Ph.D. in administration at the University of Quebec at Montréal (UQAM). He is actually director of the project management master's degree and director of the Multidisciplinary studies in project management (www.uqa.ca/lemgp). His main areas of research focus principally on relationship project (marketing and communication theories applied to project management) and stakeholders management

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2022-05-20

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Vol. 4 No. 2 (2016): The Journal of Modern Project Management

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Exploratory study of success factors for research and development projects run by SMEs in Quebec linked to secondary and tertiary aluminum production. (2022). The Journal of Modern Project Management, 4(2). https://journalmodernpm.com/manuscript/index.php/jmpm/article/view/237

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