The Oxford handbook of megaproject management / edited by Bent Flyvbjerg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Flyvbjerg, Bent, editor.

Series:

Oxford handbooks online

Oxford handbooks in business and management.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Project management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations.

Monthly

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017-

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. At this time, we cannot add information about unpublished articles in this handbook, however the table of contents will continue to grow as additional articles pass through the review process and are added to the site. Please note that the online publication date for this handbook is the date that the first article in the title was published online.

Contents:

Introduction: The Iron Law of Megaproject Management / Bent Flyvbjerg

Megaproject Escalation of Commitment: An Update and Appraisal / Helga Drummond

Understanding Drivers of Megaevents in Emerging Economies / Robert A. Baade, Victor A. Matheson

Megaprojects as Games of Innovation / Roger Miller, Donald Lessard, Vivek Sakhrani

Megaproject Stakeholder Management / Graham M. Winch

Innovation and Flexibility in Megaprojects: A New Delivery Model / David M. Gann, Andrew Davies, Mark Dodgson

Private Finance: What Problems Does It Solve, and How Well? / Carsten Greve, Graeme A. Hodge

Quality Assurance in Megaproject Management: The Norwegian Way / Knut Samset, Gro Holst Volden

Wider Impacts of Megaprojects: Curse or Cure? / Roger Vickerman

The Power of Systems Integration: Lessons from London 2012 / Andrew Davies

Has Megaproject Management Lost Its Way? Lessons from History / Sylvain Lenfle, Christoph Loch

Iconic Urban Megaprojects in a Global Context: Revisiting Bilbao / Gerardo del Cerro Santamaria

Megaprojects as Political Symbols: South Africa's Gautrain / Janis van der Westhuizen

The Good Megadam: Does It Exist, All Things Considered? / Thayer Scudder

Cracking the Code of Megaproject Innovation: The Case of Boeing's 787 / Vered Holzmann, Aaron Shenhar, Yao Zhao, Benjamin Melamed

Private Provision of Public Services: The Case of Australia's Motorways / Demi Chung

Large Dam Development: From Trojan Horse to Pandora's Box / Rhodante Ahlers, Margreet Zwarteveen, Karen Bakker

A Collective-Action Perspective on the Planning of Megaprojects / Nuno Gil

Cycles in Megaproject Development / Matti Siemiatycki

Institutional Challenges and Solutions for Global Megaprojects / W. Richard Scott, Raymond Levitt

Big is Fragile: An Attempt at Theorizing Scale / Atif Ansar, Bent Flyvbjerg, Alexander Budzier, Daniel Lunn

Biggest Infrastructure Bubble Ever? City and Nation Building with Debt-Financed Megaprojects in China / Xuefei Ren

Megaproject Decision Making and Management: Ethical and Political Issues / Hugo Priemus, Bert van Wee

Did Megaproject Research Pioneer Behavioral Economics? The Case of Albert O. Hirschman / Bent Flyvbjerg

Power and Sensemaking in Megaprojects / Stewart Clegg, Christopher Biesenthal, Shankar Sankaran, Julien Pollack.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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ISBN:

9780191796586

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