Timur Narbaev
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View article: A Decade of Transformation in Higher Education and Science in Kazakhstan: A Literature and Scientometric Review of National Projects and Research Trends
A Decade of Transformation in Higher Education and Science in Kazakhstan: A Literature and Scientometric Review of National Projects and Research Trends Open
Higher education and science (HES) is one of the key drivers of a country’s economic growth. In this study, we examine national projects and research capacity in HES in Kazakhstan from 2014 to 2024. We conducted a content review and scient…
View article: An Assessment of Financial Stability of Artificial Intelligence-based Monitoring Project in Kazakhstan
An Assessment of Financial Stability of Artificial Intelligence-based Monitoring Project in Kazakhstan Open
Today, public-private partnership (hereinafter – PPP) projects, which apply digital technologies and artificial intelligence (hereinafter – AI), are becoming essential for improving infrastructure delivery and transparency. This study aims…
View article: Managing the multi-stakeholder complex in P3 project decision-making: a mix-method review
Managing the multi-stakeholder complex in P3 project decision-making: a mix-method review Open
Managing stakeholders in a public-private partnership (P3) project is complex; it involves uncertainties, variations, and intricacies. A typical P3 system has a dynamic multi-stakeholder system requiring active project management to avoid …
View article: SUCCESS ANALYSIS OF PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECT IN KAZAKHSTAN: A CASE OF THE BIG ALMATY RING ROAD (BAKAD)
SUCCESS ANALYSIS OF PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECT IN KAZAKHSTAN: A CASE OF THE BIG ALMATY RING ROAD (BAKAD) Open
Public-Private Project (PPP) projects in highway infrastructure development are gaining popularity in emerging economies, optimizing public budgets through private investments, sharing risks between the public and private sectors, and bene…
View article: Critical review of the drivers and barriers for adopting net zero carbon procurement for construction projects
Critical review of the drivers and barriers for adopting net zero carbon procurement for construction projects Open
To meet the net zero 2050 target in construction, a net-zero carbon public procurement policy is needed. This paper adopts a systematic review approach to explore the drivers and barriers to adopting net-zero carbon procurement. The top th…
View article: Building Urban Community Resilience against Hazards through Public-Private Partnerships: A Review of Critical Resilience Strategies
Building Urban Community Resilience against Hazards through Public-Private Partnerships: A Review of Critical Resilience Strategies Open
The need for governments and stakeholders to find urgent solutions to address the destructive effects of disasters in urban areas has led to the call for cross-sector collaborations such as public-private partnerships to assist with the de…
View article: Evaluating Public-Private Partnership Dynamics: the Kazakhstan Toll Road Case
Evaluating Public-Private Partnership Dynamics: the Kazakhstan Toll Road Case Open
The holistic collaboration between the government and business through public-private partnerships (PPPs) is crucial in developing economies in transition. With the help of the PPP mechanism, emerging economies realize new and maintain exi…
View article: Improving Project Estimates at Completion through Progress-Based Performance Factors
Improving Project Estimates at Completion through Progress-Based Performance Factors Open
From a managerial perspective, project success hinges on estimates at completion as they allow tailoring response actions to cost and schedule overruns. While the literature is moving towards sophisticated approaches, standard methodologie…
View article: Eliminating Sub-Optimality in Earned Value Management Scheduling
Eliminating Sub-Optimality in Earned Value Management Scheduling Open
Strategic and operational project successes rely on optimal implementation, with time-to-execution being a key value driver and competitive advantage. Earned Value Management (EVM) is the most pervasive approach to scheduling and cost moni…
View article: УНИВЕРСИТЕТСКАЯ НАУКА И ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКИЙ РОСТ: ОБЗОР НАУЧНЫХ ПУБЛИКАЦИИ УНИВЕРСИТЕТОВ КАЗАХСТАНА В БАЗЕ SCOPUS ЗА 1991-2022 ГГ.
УНИВЕРСИТЕТСКАЯ НАУКА И ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКИЙ РОСТ: ОБЗОР НАУЧНЫХ ПУБЛИКАЦИИ УНИВЕРСИТЕТОВ КАЗАХСТАНА В БАЗЕ SCOPUS ЗА 1991-2022 ГГ. Open
This article describes the science publications activity of Kazakhstan’s universities and its role in country’s economic growth in 1991-2022. The topic of the article reveals the relevance ofgovernment financing related to science and the …
View article: THE CHALLENGES OF USING THE AGILE APPROACH WHILE DEALING WITH SUPPORTERS OF THE CONSERVATIVE APPROACH IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT
THE CHALLENGES OF USING THE AGILE APPROACH WHILE DEALING WITH SUPPORTERS OF THE CONSERVATIVE APPROACH IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT Open
Project management (PM) is one of the most important aspects of modern business and society. Successful completion of projects can ensure the growth and development of organizations, as well as the social well-being of society and the coun…
View article: A machine learning study to improve the reliability of project cost estimates
A machine learning study to improve the reliability of project cost estimates Open
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View article: A META-ANALYSIS OF THE PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP LITERATURE REVIEWS: EXPLORING THE IDENTITY OF THE FIELD
A META-ANALYSIS OF THE PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP LITERATURE REVIEWS: EXPLORING THE IDENTITY OF THE FIELD Open
The growing literature in PPP has made the field multi-disciplinary, over-differentiated, and unconsolidated. Taking a meta-analysis lens, this study investigates an unexplored identity of the field. It consolidates 61 review articles in P…
View article: The Research Environment in a Developing Economy: Reforms, Patterns, and Challenges in Kazakhstan
The Research Environment in a Developing Economy: Reforms, Patterns, and Challenges in Kazakhstan Open
Kazakhstan has implemented numerous policy reforms to improve its research environment since 1991, experiencing both positive changes and critical challenges. In this study, we conduct a comprehensive investigation of the country’s researc…
View article: A Scientometric Analysis of Studies on Risk Management in Construction Projects
A Scientometric Analysis of Studies on Risk Management in Construction Projects Open
Risk management is one of the topical areas in construction project management research. However, no attempt has been made in the past decades to explore the emerging themes in this area. This paper reviews the research trends in risk mana…
View article: Estimation of Risk Contingency Budget in Projects using Machine Learning
Estimation of Risk Contingency Budget in Projects using Machine Learning Open
To manage risks against unexpected cost overruns, project teams use Contingency Budget (CB). Its accurate estimation has been a subject of multiple studies proposing either deterministic or probabilistic models. In this study, we propose a…
View article: A Machine Learning Study to Enhance Project Cost Forecasting
A Machine Learning Study to Enhance Project Cost Forecasting Open
In project management it is critical to obtain accurate cost forecasts using effective methods. This study presents a Machine Learning model based on Long-Short Term Memory to forecast the project cost. The model uses the seven-dimensional…
View article: Research Productivity in Emerging Economies: Empirical Evidence from Kazakhstan
Research Productivity in Emerging Economies: Empirical Evidence from Kazakhstan Open
The growth of the Higher Education and Science (HES) sector is positively associated with its research productivity and has a high potential in emerging countries. To explore such research productivity, this study offers a comprehensive an…
View article: Factors of Schedule and Cost Performance of Tunnel Construction Megaprojects
Factors of Schedule and Cost Performance of Tunnel Construction Megaprojects Open
Aims: This study illustrates the main factors that influence the cost overruns and schedule delays of tunnel construction megaprojects. Objective: An empirical analysis was carried out based on a dataset collected from a number of recent t…
View article: Formation and bases of the analysis of the investment portfolio of the enterprise
Formation and bases of the analysis of the investment portfolio of the enterprise Open
This article discusses several methods for project design and analysis. After all, they are the key ones in creating a new IT portfolio of the enterprise, according to the standards for the formation and management of projects, which is es…
View article: Public-private partnerships: A multi-disciplinary meta-review of the research
Public-private partnerships: A multi-disciplinary meta-review of the research Open
The spreadsheets provide 1) details of 1,354 papers on Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) from 605 journals extracted from the Scopus database; 2) an initial ranking of 547 journals by 11 citation-based metrics such as a journal impact fac…
View article: Integrating risk in project cost forecasting
Integrating risk in project cost forecasting Open
Estimating duration and cost at completion based on Earned Value Management (EVM) data and managing risk contingency accounts in ongoing projects are typically treated by both scholars and practitioners as separate processes of project mon…
View article: Project Management Knowledge Discovery in Kazakhstan: Co-Word Analysis of the Field
Project Management Knowledge Discovery in Kazakhstan: Co-Word Analysis of the Field Open
Over the past 25 years Project Management (PM) has become a diverse field of research, whose agenda has substantially moved from a practitioner focus to an academic one. Given such an established background of the global PM research and kn…
View article: An Assessment of Project Management Maturity in Kazakhstan
An Assessment of Project Management Maturity in Kazakhstan Open
For more than sixty years organizations have been using methods and tools of Project Management (PM) which, in the past two decades, has become a diverse field of management application with its own knowledge domain. The success of such PM…