The Oxford Handbook of Megaproject Management

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Bent Flyvbjerg (BT Professor and Chair of Major Programme Management, BT Professor and Chair of Major Programme Management, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford)

The Oxford Handbook of Megaproject Management

Bent Flyvbjerg (BT Professor and Chair of Major Programme Management, BT Professor and Chair of Major Programme Management, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford)

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Oxford University Press
29 December 2016

Business strategy; Management decision making; Project management; Organisational theory & behaviour

Series: Oxford Handbooks

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.

Edited by: Bent Flyvbjerg (BT Professor and Chair of Major Programme Management BT Professor and Chair of Major Programme Management Saïd Business School University of Oxford)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 171mm, Spine: 41mm
Weight: 1.250kg
ISBN: 9780198732242
ISBN 10: 0198732244
Series: Oxford Handbooks
Pages: 618
Publication Date: 29 December 2016
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for The Oxford Handbook of Megaproject Management

iThe Oxford Handbook of Megaproject Managementr edited by Bent Flyvbjerg is an important and certainly timely book I strongly recommend this book to anyone interested in megaprojects-policy makers, practitioners, consultants, and scholars. It is a must-read for master and doctoral students in large-scale project management, and 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 Sï¿½derlund, Project Management Journal