The impact of project risk management strategies, group innovative performance, and latent tensions on project conflict manifestations within engineering and IT firms in the UAE

Abstract

In project life cycle, many manifestation of conflicts happens and these conflicts are affected by many factors inside the organization. The present study seeks to draw on pertinent theories in the area of group innovativeness, latent tension, and project risk management; where project conflict manifestation is the dependent variable, group innovativeness, latent tension, and project risk management is the dependent variable within IT firms in the UAE. Data was collected with the help of survey questionnaire administered through online platform using five likert scale and PLS (Partial Least Squares) SEM-VB (Structural Equation Modelling-Variance Based) was employed to assess the research model by utilising the software SmartPLS 3.0. The findings have shed some lights on some new variables that influence the manifestation of project conflict. Group innovative performance, and project risk management have a significant negative influence on project conflict manifestation. On the other hand, latent tension had a positive impact on the dependent variable. In addition, results added to the body of knowledge, moreover give insights to the managers how to control the project conflicts manifestations.