Toward a Mature Body of Knowledge: A Meta-Analysis of Antecedents to Infrastructure Project Environmental and Social Sustainability
本研究对78项实证研究进行元分析，考察了基础设施项目环境与社会可持续性的11个前因，发现项目治理、内部资源与能力以及制度环境三类前因均与可持续性显著正相关，且国家文化和可持续性测量方式具有调节作用。
Despite a substantial body of literature addressing the environmental and social sustainability (ESS) of infrastructure projects, empirical findings regarding the effect sizes of ESS antecedents remain dispersed and ambiguous. This study develops a theoretical framework and conducts a meta-analysis of 78 empirical studies to investigate the relationships between ESS and its 11 antecedents. We propose a structured framework for understanding the complex drivers of ESS. The antecedents are categorized into three domains: project governance (encompassing both inter-organizational governance and intra-organizational governance); internal resources and capabilities (including internal resources, organizational capabilities, employee-level cognition and organizational opportunity recognition); and institutional environment (characterized by coercive, normative, and mimetic pressures). Our findings reveal a significant positive association between all three antecedent categories and ESS outcomes. Moreover, national cultures and measurement of ESS demonstrate significant moderating effects on the relationships between ESS and its antecedents, underscoring the role of contextual contingencies. Notably, the results demonstrate that the antecedents are complementary in enhancing ESS, rather than acting in isolation. By aggregating and synthesizing existing research, this study contributes to the ESS and engineering management literature by quantifying the relationship between ESS and its antecedents, emphasizing the fundamental role of contingent factors, and establishing a cohesive conceptual framework that elucidates the mechanisms linking ESS and its antecedents.