Oxford handbook of megaproject management

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This handbook provides stateoftheart scholarship in the emerging field of megaproject management. Megaproject management is a newish subfield of project management. This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. This chapter serves as an introduction to megaprojects, and to the oxford handbook of megaproject management.

It furthers the universitys objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. The oxford handbook of project management edited by peter w. Care should be taken in comparing the cost of projects from different times, even a few years apart due to inflation. First, megaprojects are defined and the size of the.

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Bent flyvbjerg and authored by 44 experts in the field provides stateoftheart scholarship in the emerging. Leo dobes crawford school of public policy, australian national. Read the oxford handbook of megaproject management by available from rakuten kobo. Ty redden journal of planning education and research 2018 10. Lessons from history by sylvain lenfle and christoph loch november 2015 this is a draft of a chapterarticle that has been accepted for. The oxford handbook of megaproject management by flyvbjerg, bent, ed. Positioning project management as a domain much broader and more strategic than simply execution management, this book draws on the insights of over forty scholars to chart the development of the subject over the last fifty years or more as an area of increasing practical and academic interest. Levitt and scott featured in oxford handbook of megaproject management wednesday, june, 2018 largescale investment projects, which impact millions and typically cost over a billion.