Project Governance Getting Investments Right [Hardcover]

Provides essential insight into what it takes to turn an initial idea into a project with successful outcome in the long term. Fills a gap in current literature on project management and is thoroughly grounded in the latest research in this field.List of Tables List of Figures Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; T.Williams  & K.Samset The Influence of Strategic Context on Project Management Systems: A Senior Management Perspective; V.K.Narayanan  & R.DeFillippi The Proposal; K.Samset  & G.Holst Volden Assessing the Proposal; C.Chapman Designing the Project; A.Edkins  & A.Smith Decision-makings in Organisation; T.O'Leary Decision-making around the Project  How and Why 'Glory' Projects Fail; S.Cicmil  & D.Braddon Decision-making in the Political Environment; T.Christensen Concluding Note; T.WilliamsDEREK BRADDON Emeritus Professor of Economics at the Bristol Business School, University of the West of England, UKCHRIS CHAPMAN Emeritus Professor of Management Science, University of Southampton, UKTOM CHRISTENSEN Professor of Public Administration and Public Policy at the Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, NorwaySVETLANA CICMIL Director of Postgraduate Research and Associate Professor in Global Operations, Faculty of Business and Law, University of the West of England, UKROBERT DEFILLIPPI Professor and Chair of Strategy and International Business and the founder and Director of the Center for Innovation and Change Leadership at the Sawyer Business School, Suffolk University, USAANDREW EDKINS Director of the Bartlett School of Construction & Project Management at UCL, UKGRO HOLST VOLDEN Research Director of the Concept Research Program at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, NorwayV.K. NARAYANAN Associate Dean for Research, Director of the PhD program and the Center for Research Excellence, and the Stubbs Professor of Strategy and Entreprenel"