The Oxford Handbook of Megaproject Management provides state-of-the-art scholarship in the emerging field of megaproject management. Megaprojects are large, complex projects which typically cost billions of dollars and impact millions of people, like building a high-speed rail line, a megadam, a national health or pensions IT system, a new wide-body aircraft, or staging the Olympics. The book contains 25
chapters written especially for this volume, covering 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. Individual chapters cover the history of the field and relevant theory, from behavioral economics to lock-in and escalation to systems integration and theories of agency and power. All geographies are covered - from the US to China, Europe to Africa, South America to Australia - as are a wide range of project types, from "hard" infrastructure to "soft" change projects. In-depth case studies illustrate salient
points. The Handbook offers a rigorous, research-oriented, up-to-date academic view of the discipline, based on high-quality data and strong theory. It will be an indispensable resource for
students, academics, policy makers, and practitioners.
The Oxford Handbook of Megaproject Management provides state-of-the-art scholarship in the emerging field of megaproject management. Megaprojects are large, complex projects which typically cost billions of dollars and impact millions of people, like building a high-speed rail line, a megadam, a national health or pensions IT system, a new wide-body aircraft, or staging the Olympics. The book contains 25
chapters written especially for this volume, covering 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. Individual chapters cover the history of the field and relevant theory, from behavioral economics to lock-in and escalation to systems integration and theories of agency and power. All geographies are covered - from the US to China, Europe to Africa, South America to Australia - as are a wide range of project types, from "hard" infrastructure to "soft" change projects. In-depth case studies illustrate salient
points. The Handbook offers a rigorous, research-oriented, up-to-date academic view of the discipline, based on high-quality data and strong theory. It will be an indispensable resource for
students, academics, policy makers, and practitioners.
1: Bent Flyvbjerg: Introduction: The Iron Law of Megaproject
Management
Part I: Challenges
2: Sylvain Lenfle and Christoph Loch: Has Megaproject Management
Lost Its Way? Lessons from History
3: Matti Siemiatycki: Cycles in Megaproject Development
4: Atif Ansar, Bent Flyvbjerg, Alexander Budzier, and Daniel Lunn:
Big is Fragile: An Attempt at Theorizing Scale
5: Raymond E. Levitt and W. Richard Scott: Institutional Challenges
and Solutions for Global Megaprojects
6: Bert van Wee and Hugo Priemus: Megaproject Decision Making and
Management: Ethical and Political Issues
7: Xuefei Ren: Biggest Infrastructure Bubble Ever? City and Nation
Building with Debt-Financed Megaprojects in China
Part II: Causes
8: Bent Flyvbjerg: Did Megaproject Research Pioneer Behavioral
Economics? The Case of Albert O. Hirschman
9: Helga Drummond: Megaproject Escalation of Commitment: An Update
and Appraisal
10: Roger Miller, Donald Lessard, and Vivek Sakhrani: Megaprojects
as Games of Innovation
11: Stewart Clegg, Shankar Sankaran, Chris Biesenthal, and Julien
Pollack: Power and Sensemaking in Megaprojects
12: Nuno Gil: A Collective-Action Perspective on the Planning of
Megaprojects
13: Robert A. Baade and Victor A. Matheson: Understanding Drivers
of Megaevents in Emerging Economies
Part III: Cures
14: Andrew Davies, Mark Dodgson, and David M. Gann: Innovation and
Flexibility in Megaprojects: A New Delivery Model
15: Graham Winch: Megaproject Stakeholder Management
16: Graeme Hodge and Carsten Greve: Private Finance: What Problems
Does It Solve, and How Well?
17: Roger Vickerman: Wider Impacts of Megaprojects: Curse or
Cure?
18: Gro Holst Volden and Knut Samset: Quality Assurance in
Megaproject Management: The Norwegian Way
19: Thayer Scudder: The Good Megadam: Does It Exist, All Things
Considered?
Part IV: Cases
20: Vered Holzmann, Aaron Shenhar, Yao Zhao, and Benjamin Melamed:
Cracking the Code of Megaproject Innovation: The Case of Boeing's
787
21: Andrew Davies: The Power of Systems Integration: Lessons from
London 2012
22: Gerardo del Cerro Santamaría: Iconic Urban Megaprojects in a
Global Context: Revisiting Bilbao
23: Demi Chung: Private Provision of Public Services: The Case of
Australia's Motorways
24: Janis van der Westhuizen: Megaprojects as Political Symbols:
South Africa's Gautrain
25: Rhodante Ahlers, Margreet Zwarteveen, and Karen Bakker: Large
Dam Development: From Trojan Horse to Pandora's Box
Bent Flyvbjerg is the first BT Professor and inaugural Chair of
Major Programme Management at the University of Oxford. He is the
author or editor of 10 books and more than 200 papers. His
publications have been translated into 20 languages and are widely
cited. His research has been covered by Science, The Economist, The
New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, China
Daily, The BBC, CNN, and many other media. Flyvbjerg serves as
advisor and
consultant to government and business around the world, including
the UK and US governments and several Fortune 500 companies. He was
twice a Fulbright Scholar and received a knighthood in 2002.
this book is a very interesting read, with plenty of case material
for project tragic
*Leo Dobes, Economic Record *
The Oxford Handbook of Megaproject Management is an important and
certainly timely book... Professor Flyvbjerg is one of the central
players in this emerging field of research and he has teamed up
with world-leading contributors from a diverse set of scholarly
disciplines and backgrounds to offer a contemporary view of
megaproject management... I am sure that it will be a major
milestone defining research on large-scale projects, which project
scholars and practitioners will reflect upon for many years to
come.
*Jonas Söderlund, Project Management Journal*
Practitioners, planners, policy makers and scholars in the areas of
infrastructure and economic development will find the volume of
considerable value... it makes a major contribution.
*Roger R. Stough, Regional Science Policy & Practice*
A significant contribution... the writing exposition is clear and
efficient which makes the book accessible to a diverse set of
readers inside and outside of the academy... an invaluable handbook
as intended in title and curation.
*Karen Trapenberg Frick, Transport Reviews*
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