The Oxford Handbook of Megaproject Management (Oxford Handbooks)

This handbook provides state-of-the-art scholarship in the emerging field of megaproject management. The 25 chapters cover 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. Cover The Oxford Handbook of Megaproject Management Copyright Contents List of Illustrations List of Tables List of Contributors 1. Introduction: The Iron Law of Megaproject Management Part I Challenges 2. Has Megaproject Management Lost Its Way? Lessons from History 3. Cycles in Megaproject Development 4. Big Is Fragile: An Attempt at Theorizing Scale 5. Institutional Challenges and Solutions for Global Megaprojects 6. Megaproject Decision Making and Management: Ethical and Political Issues 7. Biggest Infrastructure Bubble Ever? City and Nation Building with Debt-​Financed Megaprojects in China Part II Causes 8. Did Megaproject Research Pioneer Behavioral Economics? The Case of Albert O. Hirschman 9. Megaproject Escalation of Commitment: An Update and Appraisal 10. Megaprojects as Games of Innovation 11. Power and Sensemaking in Megaprojects 12. A Collective-​Action Perspective on the Planning of Megaprojects 13. Understanding Drivers of Megaevents in Emerging Economies Part III Cures 14. Innovation and Flexibility in Megaprojects: A New Delivery Model 15. Megaproject Stakeholder Management 16. Private Finance: What Problems Does It Solve, and How Well? 17. Wider Impacts of Megaprojects: Curse or Cure? 18. Quality Assurance in Megaproject Management: The Norwegian Way 19. The Good Megadam: Does It Exist, All Things Considered? Part IV Cases 20. Cracking the Code of Megaproject Innovation: The Case of Boeing’s 787 21. The Power of Systems Integration: Lessons from London 2012 22. Iconic Urban Megaprojects in a Global Context: Revisiting Bilbao 23. Private Provision of Public Services: The Case of Australia’s Motorways 24. Megaprojects as Political Symbols: South Africa’s Gautrain 25. Large Dam Development: From Trojan Horse to Pandora’s Box Index 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 that 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 rigorous, research-oriented, up-to-date academic view of the discipline, based on high-quality data and strong theory. It will be an indispensible resource for students, academics, policy makers, and practitioners. This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. At this time, we cannot add information about unpublished articles in this handbook, however the table of contents will continue to grow as additional articles pass through the review process and are added to the site. Please note that the online publication date for this handbook is the date that the first article in the title was published online