The Strategic Management of Large Engineering Projects : Shaping Institutions, Risks, and Governance.
Material type:
- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780262279864
- 658.5
- TA190.M55 2000
The Strategic Management of Large Engineering Projects -- Contents -- Tables -- Figures -- The IMEC Research Group -- The IMEC Research Program -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Public Goods and Private Strategies: Making Sense of Project Performance -- Transformations in Arrangements for Shaping and Delivering Engineering Projects -- Mapping and Facing the Landscape of Risks -- Project Shaping as a Competitive Advantage -- Strategic Systems and Templates -- Building Governability into Project Structures -- Transforming Institutions -- The Financing of Large Engineering Projects -- Partnering Alliances for Project Design and Execution -- Rising to the Challenge of Evolving High- Stakes Games -- Appendix A: Short Description of the Sixty Projects Studied in the IMEC Program -- Appendix B: Attendees at the IMEC Forums in Montreal, Poitiers, and James Bay -- References -- Index.
The book is based on an international research project that analyzed sixty LEPs, among them the Boston Harbor cleanup; the first phase of subway construction in Ankara, Turkey; a hydro dam on the Caroni River in Venezuela; and the construction of offshore oil platforms west of Flor, Norway.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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