The Oxford Handbook of Megaproject Management by Bent Flyvbjerg (English) Hardco

Description: The Oxford Handbook of Megaproject Management by Bent Flyvbjerg This Handbook provides state-of-the-art scholarship in the emerging field of megaproject management. The 25 chapters cover all aspects of megaproject management, from front-end planning to actual project delivery, including how to deal with stakeholders, risk, finance, complexity, innovation, governance, ethics, project breakdowns, and scale itself FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The Oxford Handbook of Megaproject Management provides state-of-the-art scholarship in the emerging field of megaproject management. Megaprojects are large, complex projects which typically cost billions of dollars and impact millions of people, like building a high-speed rail line, a megadam, a national health or pensions IT system, a new wide-body aircraft, or staging the Olympics. The book contains 25chapters written especially for this volume, covering all aspects of megaproject management, from front-end planning to actual project delivery, including how to deal with stakeholders, risk, finance, complexity,innovation, governance, ethics, project breakdowns, and scale itself. Individual chapters cover the history of the field and relevant theory, from behavioral economics to lock-in and escalation to systems integration and theories of agency and power. All geographies are covered - from the US to China, Europe to Africa, South America to Australia - as are a wide range of project types, from "hard" infrastructure to "soft" change projects. In-depth case studies illustrate salientpoints. The Handbook offers a rigorous, research-oriented, up-to-date academic view of the discipline, based on high-quality data and strong theory. It will be an indispensable resource forstudents, academics, policy makers, and practitioners. Author Biography Bent Flyvbjerg is the first BT Professor and inaugural Chair of Major Programme Management at the University of Oxford. He is the author or editor of 10 books and more than 200 papers. His publications have been translated into 20 languages and are widely cited. His research has been covered by Science, The Economist, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, China Daily, The BBC, CNN, and many other media. Flyvbjerg serves as advisor andconsultant to government and business around the world, including the UK and US governments and several Fortune 500 companies. He was twice a Fulbright Scholar and received a knighthood in 2002. Table of Contents 1: Bent Flyvbjerg: Introduction: The Iron Law of Megaproject ManagementPart I: Challenges2: Sylvain Lenfle and Christoph Loch: Has Megaproject Management Lost Its Way? Lessons from History3: Matti Siemiatycki: Cycles in Megaproject Development4: Atif Ansar, Bent Flyvbjerg, Alexander Budzier, and Daniel Lunn: Big is Fragile: An Attempt at Theorizing Scale5: Raymond E. Levitt and W. Richard Scott: Institutional Challenges and Solutions for Global Megaprojects6: Bert van Wee and Hugo Priemus: Megaproject Decision Making and Management: Ethical and Political Issues7: Xuefei Ren: Biggest Infrastructure Bubble Ever? City and Nation Building with Debt-Financed Megaprojects in ChinaPart II: Causes8: Bent Flyvbjerg: Did Megaproject Research Pioneer Behavioral Economics? The Case of Albert O. Hirschman9: Helga Drummond: Megaproject Escalation of Commitment: An Update and Appraisal10: Roger Miller, Donald Lessard, and Vivek Sakhrani: Megaprojects as Games of Innovation11: Stewart Clegg, Shankar Sankaran, Chris Biesenthal, and Julien Pollack: Power and Sensemaking in Megaprojects12: Nuno Gil: A Collective-Action Perspective on the Planning of Megaprojects13: Robert A. Baade and Victor A. Matheson: Understanding Drivers of Megaevents in Emerging EconomiesPart III: Cures14: Andrew Davies, Mark Dodgson, and David M. Gann: Innovation and Flexibility in Megaprojects: A New Delivery Model15: Graham Winch: Megaproject Stakeholder Management16: Graeme Hodge and Carsten Greve: Private Finance: What Problems Does It Solve, and How Well?17: Roger Vickerman: Wider Impacts of Megaprojects: Curse or Cure?18: Gro Holst Volden and Knut Samset: Quality Assurance in Megaproject Management: The Norwegian Way19: Thayer Scudder: The Good Megadam: Does It Exist, All Things Considered?Part IV: Cases20: Vered Holzmann, Aaron Shenhar, Yao Zhao, and Benjamin Melamed: Cracking the Code of Megaproject Innovation: The Case of Boeings 78721: Andrew Davies: The Power of Systems Integration: Lessons from London 201222: Gerardo del Cerro Santamaría: Iconic Urban Megaprojects in a Global Context: Revisiting Bilbao23: Demi Chung: Private Provision of Public Services: The Case of Australias Motorways24: Janis van der Westhuizen: Megaprojects as Political Symbols: South Africas Gautrain25: Rhodante Ahlers, Margreet Zwarteveen, and Karen Bakker: Large Dam Development: From Trojan Horse to Pandoras Box Review this book is a very interesting read, with plenty of case material for project tragic * Leo Dobes, Economic Record *The Oxford Handbook of Megaproject Management is an important and certainly timely book... Professor Flyvbjerg is one of the central players in this emerging field of research and he has teamed up with world-leading contributors from a diverse set of scholarly disciplines and backgrounds to offer a contemporary view of megaproject management... I am sure that it will be a major milestone defining research on large-scale projects, which project scholars and practitioners will reflect upon for many years to come. * Jonas Söderlund, Project Management Journal *Practitioners, planners, policy makers and scholars in the areas of infrastructure and economic development will find the volume of considerable value... it makes a major contribution. * Roger R. Stough, Regional Science Policy & Practice *A significant contribution... the writing exposition is clear and efficient which makes the book accessible to a diverse set of readers inside and outside of the academy... an invaluable handbook as intended in title and curation. * Karen Trapenberg Frick, Transport Reviews * Long Description The Oxford Handbook of Megaproject Management provides state-of-the-art scholarship in the emerging field of megaproject management. Megaprojects are large, complex projects which typically cost billions of dollars and impact millions of people, like building a high-speed rail line, a megadam, a national health or pensions IT system, a new wide-body aircraft, or staging the Olympics. The book contains 25chapters written especially for this volume, covering all aspects of megaproject management, from front-end planning to actual project delivery, including how to deal with stakeholders, risk, finance, complexity,innovation, governance, ethics, project breakdowns, and scale itself. Individual chapters cover the history of the field and relevant theory, from behavioral economics to lock-in and escalation to systems integration and theories of agency and power. All geographies are covered - from the US to China, Europe to Africa, South America to Australia - as are a wide range of project types, from "hard" infrastructure to "soft" change projects. In-depth case studies illustrate salientpoints. The Handbook offers a rigorous, research-oriented, up-to-date academic view of the discipline, based on high-quality data and strong theory. It will be an indispensable resource forstudents, academics, policy makers, and practitioners. Review Quote "this book is a very interesting read, with plenty of case material for project tragic" -- Leo Dobes, Economic Record "The Oxford Handbook of Megaproject Management is an important and certainly timely book... Professor Flyvbjerg is one of the central players in this emerging field of research and he has teamed up with world-leading contributors from a diverse set of scholarly disciplines and backgrounds to offer a contemporary view of megaproject management... I am sure that it will be a major milestone defining research on large-scale projects, which project scholars and practitioners will reflect upon for many years to come." --Jonas Sderlund, Project Management Journal "Practitioners, planners, policy makers and scholars in the areas of infrastructure and economic development will find the volume of considerable value... it makes a major contribution." --Roger R. Stough, Regional Science Policy & Practice "A significant contributionthe writing exposition is clear and efficient which makes the book accessible to a diverse set of readers inside and outside of the academy... an invaluable handbook as intended in title and curation." --Karen Trapenberg Frick, Transport Reviews Feature Presents the latest scholarship and research in Megaproject ManagementInterdisciplinary in appeal; management, planning, engineering and geography, psychology and political scienceGlobal in coverageA number of leading researchers and institutions represented in the chapters Details ISBN0198732244 Language English ISBN-10 0198732244 ISBN-13 9780198732242 Format Hardcover Publisher Oxford University Press Series Oxford Handbooks Place of Publication Oxford Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Bent Flyvbjerg DEWEY 658.404 Position BT Professor and Chair of Major Programme Management Affiliation BT Professor and Chair of Major Programme Management, Said Business School, University of Oxford Author Bent Flyvbjerg Year 2017 Publication Date 2017-04-27 UK Release Date 2017-04-27 AU Release Date 2017-04-27 NZ Release Date 2017-04-27 Pages 618 Imprint Oxford University Press Alternative 9780198831105 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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