Description
Large public projects represent major complex investment and whilst there has been much written about how to develop, manage and deliver such projects, practice still does not match up with expectations. In this book, researchers from the Norwegian Concept Research Programme explore the paradoxes between theory and practice in collaboration with experts in the field of project governance.
This book delves into the reality of large public projects, to show how they can be managed effectively and efficiently, recognising the realities of their context. It offers a range of practical conclusions as to the paradoxes of the governance and management of public projects. The international spectrum of authors draw their examples from the UK, Norway, Canada, France, Australia and the Netherlands.
Bridging the gap between research, theory and practice, this book will benefit academics and researchers in the field of project management and corporate governance as well as those in the practice of public project governance, civil servants and industry practitioners.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
Gro Holst Volden and Knut Samset
2. Project success
Terry M. Williams
3. The logic of the project front-end
Ofer Zwikael and Alicia Gilchrist
4. Undertaking the project front-end
Monique Aubry and Serghei Floricel
5. Estimation
Richard J. Kirkham
6. Incentives and politics: The perverse incentives paradox: root cause of many other paradoxes; the case of the Dutch Betuweroute
Bert van Wee
7. Closing the loop: Ex-ante and ex-post evaluation in order to learn from mistakes and successes
Knut Samset and Gro Holst Volden
8. Conclusions
Terry M. Williams
Appendix
