Project Management and Sustainable Development Principles
Published on 1. April 2013
199 pages
978-1-62825-274-3 (ISBN)
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Illustrated with more than 100 figures and tables, Project Management and Sustainable Development Principles provides practitioners with all the tools they need to understand Sustainable Development and apply its principles to the initiation and management of projects. This comprehensive volume begins by establishing a baseline understanding of Sustainable Development's history, its value to society and its relationship to global project management standards. It then offers an inside view of Sustainable Development in action on a range of real-world projects and guidance on how Sustainable Development principles can improve the quality of overall process design, investment analysis and project definition, contexts and structures.
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Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Executive Summary
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- 1.1. The Purpose of this Book
- 1.2. The Relevance of Sustainable Development for Societies
- 1.3. The Relevance of Sustainable Development for Companies
- 1.4. The Relevance of Sustainable Development for Projects and Programs
- 1.5. Rethinking Project Management
- 1.6. Research Project: SustPM
- 1.7. Structure of this Book
- 1.8. Acknowledgments
- Chapter 2: Research Objectives and Research Approach
- 2.1. Introduction
- 2.2. Research Paradigms
- 2.3. Research Objectives, Hypotheses, and Working Model: SustPM
- 2.4. Research Process
- 2.5. Research Methods
- 2.6. Viability of the Research Results
- Chapter 3: Social Systems and Sustainable Development
- 3.1. Introduction
- 3.2. Social Systems as Objects of Sustainable Development
- 3.3. Sustainable Development of Societies
- 3.4. Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Sustainability
- 3.5. Sustainable Development Principles
- Chapter 4: Project Initiation, Project Management, and Quality
- 4.1. Introduction
- 4.2. Differentiation between Investment and Project
- 4.3. Differentiation between the Project Initiation and the Project Management Processes
- 4.4. Project Initiation Process
- 4.5. Project Management Process
- 4.6. Quality and the Working Model: SustPM
- 4.7. Conclusion: The Working Model: SustPM
- Chapter 5: Consideration of Sustainable Development Principles in Global Project and Program Management Standards
- 5.1. Introduction
- 5.2. Common Practices of Initiating and Managing Projects
- 5.3. Analysis of Project Management standards: Values relating to Sustainable Development
- 5.4. Analysis of Project Management standards: Sustainable Development Principles and Project Initiation
- 5.5. Analysis of Project Management standards: Sustainable Development Principles and Project Management
- 5.6. Summary: Consideration of Sustainable Development Principles in Project Management Standards
- Chapter 6: Case Study: Project Hospital North Planning
- 6.1. Introduction
- 6.2. The Investor: The Vienna Hospital Association
- 6.3. The Investment Hospital North and Sustainable Development
- 6.4. Initiating the Project: Hospital North Planning
- 6.5. Managing the Project: Hospital North Planning
- 6.6. Reflection: Case Study Process and Results
- Chapter 7: Case Study: Project: Wind Park Dorobantu Implementation
- 7.1. Introduction
- 7.2. The Investor: OMV Petrom
- 7.3. The Investment Wind Park Dorobantu and Sustainable Development
- 7.4. Managing the project: Wind Park Dorobantu Implementation
- 7.5. Reflection: Case Study Process and Results
- Chapter 8: Case Study: Project: EPC Wind Park Farm
- 8.1. Introduction
- 8.2. The Supplier: Siemens Brazil Ltd and Sustainable Development
- 8.3. Siemens Project: EPC Wind Park Farm
- 8.4. Design of the Project Management Process
- 8.5. Reflection: Case Study Process and Results
- Chapter 9: Improving the Quality of the Project Initiation Process and of the Project Management Process by Considering Sustainable Development Principles
- 9.1. Introduction
- 9.2. Improving the Quality of the Project Initiation Process by Considering Sustainable Development Principles
- 9.3. Improving the Quality of the Project Management Process by Considering Sustainable Development Principles
- Chapter 10: Outlook
- References
- Appendices
- Appendix A. Research Project: SustPM: Project Management Documents
- Appendix B. Overview of Publications and Presentations
- Appendix C. Interdisciplinary Research Workshops
- Appendix D. Focus Group Workshops
- Appendix E. Project Initiation and Project Management in Different Project Management Standards
- Appendix F. Evaluation of the Case Study Research Cooperation
