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    Empowerment and Project Performance Success: The Role of Leadership and Power Distance
    (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2024-09-30) Caruajulca Mego, Percy Eduardo; Khalilzadeh, Mohammad
    The construction of infrastructure projects for extracting natural resources is vital to the economies of countries and the strategies of mining companies; their success or failures also affect the organizations and personnel involved. Project performance success (PJPF) means achieving the planned or approved scope, cost, schedule, and quality. This research aimed to analyze if PJPF is influenced by the team’s psychological empowerment (PEMP) and structural empowerment (SEMP), the project manager’s transformational leadership (TLD) and shared leadership (SLD) styles, and the cultural power distance (CPDT). The study examined the mediating roles as well of TLD and CPDT. Throughout a post-positivist epistemology, a quantitative paradigm, and a cross-sectional design in line with other project management studies, this paper tested its hypotheses using confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling in AMOS. Data were collected using the online survey platform SurveyMonkey. Owners, contractors, and consultants from twenty-four countries across the Americas, Africa, Europe, Asia, and Australia contributed a total of 222 responses. All participants were involved in construction projects owned by a mining company listed in the S&P 500. PEMP has a positive impact on PJPF, SEMP, and CPDT. PEMP fosters engaged and autonomous employees with agility and problem-solving skills. TLD mediates the relationship between PEMP and SLD. The results indicated that SEMP, TLD, and SLD, on their own, do not directly contribute to project success. In contrast to prior studies, CPDT does not mediate the effects of PEMP on PJPF. The findings of this study offer guidance for all construction project stakeholders to improve their project success rates.