Dr Abdulmaten Taroun

dr-abdulmaten-taroun

Head of the Department of Management & Finance

Senior Management Team

Contact Details

email: a.taroun@worc.ac.uk
tel: 01905 542704

Teaching & Research

Teaching Interests

  • Project Management
  • Operations Management
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Risk and value management
  • Quality & Performance Management

Research Interests

  • Enterprise Risk Management
  • Project risk management
  • Operations & Supply Chain Management
  • Quality management
  • Project appraisal and performance analysis
  • Sustainability and sustainable development
  • Public-Private Partnership (PPP)

Professional Bodies

Professional Bodies

Association for Project Management (APM), UK
Institute of Risk Management (IRM)
Higher Education Academy (HEA), UK

Publications

Publications:

Taroun, A. (2015), Construction Project Risk Analysis via Evidential Reasoning: A novel approach for a more realistic project risk modelling and assessment. Lambert Academic Publishing,  Düsseldorf, Germany. ISBN: 978-3-659-62129-1.

Taroun, A. (2014), “Towards a better Risk Modelling and Assessment: Insights from a Literature Review”. The International Journal of Project Management, 32(1), 101 – 115.

Taroun, A. and Yang, J.B. (2013), “A DST-based Approach for Construction Project Risk Analysis”. Journal of Operational Research Society, 64, 1221–1230.

Taroun, A. and Yang, J.B. (2011), “Dempster-Shafer Theory of Evidence: Potential Usage for Decision Making and Risk Analysis in Construction Project Management”, Journal of Built and Human Environment Review, Vol. 4 (1), 155-166.

Taroun, A., Yang, J.B. and Lowe, D. (2011), “Construction Risk Modelling and Assessment: Insights from a Literature Review”, Journal of Built and Human Environment Review, Vol. 4 (1), 87-97.


Working papers:

Taroun, A. (2015), A DST-based Approach for Project Appraisal, aimed at International Journal of Project Management.

Taroun, A. (2015). “Rethinking Risk Assessment in Construction Management: A New Risk Model and a new Assessment Methodology”, aimed at Risk Analysis: an International Journal.

Taroun, A. (2015). “Measuring the Greys in Bid/No-bid Decision-making, not Only the Blacks and Whites”, aimed at Construction Management and Economics.

 

External Responsibilities

I am a reviewer for a number of academic journals including the International Journal of Project Management, Journal of Operations Research Society, Journal of Automation in Construction and the International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems.