The Oxford handbook of megaproject management (Record no. 31278)
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| LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER | |
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| LC control number | 2017933991 |
| INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780198732242 |
| DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Call number | 658.404 OX FO |
| TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The Oxford handbook of megaproject management |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | Edited by Bent Flyvbjerg |
| PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | United Kingdom : |
| Publisher | Oxford Univ Press, |
| Date | 2017. |
| PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xv, 600 p. : |
| Other Details | ill. ; |
| Size | 25 cm. |
| SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Oxford handbooks |
| CONTENTS | |
| Contents | Introduction: The iron law of megaproject management / Bent Flyvbjerg -- Part I: Challenges. Has megaproject management lost its way? Lessons from history / Sylvain Lenfle and Christoph Loch ; Cycles in megaproject development / Matti Siemiatycki ; Big is fragile : an attempt at theorizing scale / Atif Ansar, Bent Flyvbjerg, Alexander Budzier, and Daniel Lunn ; Institutional challenges and solutions for global megaprojects / Raymond E. Levitt and W. Richard Scott ; Megaproject decision making and management : ethical and political issues / Bert Van Wee and Hugo Priemus ; Biggest infrastructure bubble ever? City and nation building with debt-financed megaprojects in China / Xuefei Ren -- Part II: Causes. Did megaproject research pioneer behavioral economics? The case of Albert O. Hirschman / Bent Flyvbjerg ; Megaproject escalation of commitment : an update and appraisal / Helga Drummond ; Megaprojects as games of innovation / Roger Miller, Donald Lessard, and Vivek Sakhrani ; Power and sensemaking in megaprojects / Stewart R. Clegg, Shankar Sankaran, Chris Biesenthal, and Julien Pollack ; A collective-action perspective on the planning of megaprojects / Nuno Gil ; Understanding drivers of mega-events in emerging economies / Robert A. Baade and Victor A. Matheson -- Part III: Cures. Innovation and flexibility in megaprojects : a new delivery model / Andrew Davies, Mark Dodgson, and David M. Gann ; Megaproject stakeholder management / Graham Winch ; Private finance : what problems does it solve, and how well? / Graeme Hodge and Carsten Greve ; Wider impacts of megaprojects : curse or cure? / Roger Vickerman ; Quality assurance in megaproject management : the Norwegian way / Gro Holst Volden and Knut Samset ; The good megadam : does it exist, all things considered? / Thayer Scudder -- Part IV: Cases. Cracking the code of megaproject innovation : the case of Boeing's 787 / Vered Holzmann, Aaron Shenhar, Yao Zhao, and Benjamin Melamed ; The power of systems integration : lessons from London 2012 / Andrew Davies ; Iconic urban megaprojects in a global context : revisiting Bilbao / Gerardo Del Cerro Santamaría ; Private provision of public services : the case of Australia's motorways / Demi Chung ; Megaprojects as political symbols : South Africa's Gautrain / Janis Van Der Westhuizen ; Large dam development : from Trojan horse to Pandora's box / Rhodante Ahlers, Margreet Zwarteveen, and Karen Bakker. |
| SUMMARY | |
| Summary | 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. |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Heading | Project management |
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| Topical Heading | Project Management (PM) |
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| Name | Flyvbjerg, Bent, |
| Role | Edited by |
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| Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Permanent location | Current location | Shelving location | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| University of Wollongong in Dubai | University of Wollongong in Dubai | Main Collection | 2017-10-03 | AMAUK | 658.404 OX FO | T0056338 | 2017-05-21 | 2017-05-21 | REGULAR | ||||
| University of Wollongong in Dubai | University of Wollongong in Dubai | Main Collection | 2017-11-05 | ABE | 658.404 OX FO | T0058139 | 2017-11-05 | 2017-11-05 | REGULAR |