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The construction of large and medium-sized hydropower projects involves multiple stakeholders. The way various parties interact affects the construction and management of a project. As the construction of hydropower projects has progressed, the governance of the coordination relationship among stakeholders has become a more pressing and troublesome issue in project management research. We propose an Entropy-TOPSIS measurement method for hydropower project coordination stakeholders, and we use it to assess the degree of coordination among various stakeholders in the Sichuan JL. The results show that the owner, the supervision unit, and the subcontractor have good overall coordination, with a coordinated development degree of over 0.519. With an average coordinated development degree of over 0.361, the design unit and the supplier are next. The overall coordination of the general contractor is the worst, with a coordinated development degree of only 0.201. As a result, in this case, it is necessary to improve the general contractor's project management capabilities so that they can manage other stakeholders in a targeted and coordinated manner.
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This research was funded Research Center for Reservoir Resettlement, China Three Gorges University (Grant No.2019KQ03), and funded by National Science Foundation of China Youth Science Foundation Project (Project No. 72004116), and Science Foundation of Youth Science Foundation Project, China Three Gorges University (Grant No. KJ2019A001). The authors appreciate the editors and anonymous reviewers for their valuable suggestions.
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Huang, J., Huang, A., An, M. et al. Evaluation of hydropower project implementing coordination degree on the perspective of stakeholders. Int J Syst Assur Eng Manag 13, 1187–1197 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13198-021-01413-3
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