
Project Governance
Getting Investments Right
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Published on 23. October 2012
Book
Hardback
XI, 296 pages
978-0-230-36348-9 (ISBN)
Description
Provides essential insight into what it takes to turn an initial idea into a project with successful outcome in the long term. Fills a gap in current literature on project management and is thoroughly grounded in the latest research in this field.
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Edition
2012 edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Paper over boards
Illustrations
XI, 296 p.
Dimensions
Height: 223 mm
Width: 141 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
549 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-230-36348-9 (9780230363489)
DOI
10.1057/9781137274618
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Persons
DEREK BRADDON Emeritus Professor of Economics at the Bristol Business School, University of the West of England, UK
CHRIS CHAPMAN Emeritus Professor of Management Science, University of Southampton, UK
TOM CHRISTENSEN Professor of Public Administration and Public Policy at the Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, Norway
SVETLANA CICMIL Director of Postgraduate Research and Associate Professor in Global Operations, Faculty of Business and Law, University of the West of England, UK
ROBERT DEFILLIPPI Professor and Chair of Strategy and International Business and the founder and Director of the Center for Innovation and Change Leadership at the Sawyer Business School, Suffolk University, USA
ANDREW EDKINS Director of the Bartlett School of Construction & Project Management at UCL, UK
GRO HOLST VOLDEN Research Director of the Concept Research Program at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway
V.K. NARAYANAN Associate Dean for Research, Director of the PhD program and the Center for Research Excellence, and the Stubbs Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship in Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA
TIM O'LEARY Visiting Lecturer at the University of Southampton, UK
ALAN SMITH Director of University College London's Mullard Space Science Laboratory and the Centre for Systems Engineering, UK
Content
List of Tables List of Figures Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; T.Williams & K.Samset The Influence of Strategic Context on Project Management Systems: A Senior Management Perspective; V.K.Narayanan & R.DeFillippi The Proposal; K.Samset & G.Holst Volden Assessing the Proposal; C.Chapman Designing the Project; A.Edkins & A.Smith Decision-makings in Organisation; T.O'Leary Decision-making around the Project - How and Why 'Glory' Projects Fail; S.Cicmil & D.Braddon Decision-making in the Political Environment; T.Christensen Concluding Note; T.Williams