TY - BOOK AU - Miller,Roger AU - Lessard,Donald R. AU - Michaud,Pascale AU - Floricel,Serghei TI - The Strategic Management of Large Engineering Projects: Shaping Institutions, Risks, and Governance T2 - The MIT Press Series SN - 9780262279864 AV - TA190.M55 2000 U1 - 658.5 PY - 2001/// CY - Cambridge PB - MIT Press KW - Engineering-Management KW - Construction industry-Management KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3338429 ER -