Looking at the stakeholders in megaproject through sustainability lens – Zagreb on Sava case study

One of the major challenges in their management is the involvement of a lot of stakeholders leading to complex stakeholder interrelationships and conflicting interests. The aim of this paper is to portray the stakeholder analysis on Sava River megaproject case study using the sustainability impact. The paper begins by reviewing the literature concerning stakeholder analysis in projects. It then explains the methodology for stakeholder analysis within COST Action: Megaproject, Working group Managing External Stakeholders aiming to provide the mechanism how stakeholders influence impact megaproject performance. In order to succeed, the framework goes beyond the “iron-triangle” treating it as “side effect”, introducing sustainability issues as important aspects of megaproject impact. The paper concludes with presenting results of stakeholder analysis using the proposed framework. The new analysis is proposed based on stakeholder efficiency using difference between interest and impact.