26th International Association for Management of Technology Conference - IAMOT 2017

The South African construction industry is on a decline since the global recession that preceded the 2010 FIFA world cup infrastructure developments in South Africa. Although the post project review is a common process of identifying areas of improvement on projects for project-based organisations to become or remain sustainable, the temporary nature of projects most often restricts the assimilation of knowledge learned to be used on future projects. This research seeks to identify barriers to effective post project learning in project based organisation. Although much research already exists on barriers to effective post project learning in the construction industry of developed and developing countries, it has not been done in an emerging country like South Africa. A framework was developed to investigate the barriers, linking them to the different stages of post project learning and to identify and suggest critical success factors that could mitigate the identified barriers. Fourteen barriers and eight success factors for mitigating these barriers were identified from the literature and empirically tested through a survey questionnaire involving respondents in different project roles. The inferences drawn from this study are in line with the results from several other developing and developed countries.