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The Oxford handbook of megaproject management
Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal, 2018 The Oxford Handbook of Megaproject Management represents an ambitious attempt to bring together a vast array of scholarship from potentially disparate fields, but also to begin to construct the fou...
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THE MEGAPROJECT SPONSOR AS LEADER
South African Journal of Industrial Engineering, 2018 The importance of the sponsor role, including its contribution to the success or failure of a project, is widely recognised in the project management literature.
Louw, Willem +3 more
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Issues in front-end decision-making on projects
, 2010 The importance of the front-end decision-making phase in projects is being increasingly recognized - the need to do the right project is on a par with doing the project right. This area is underrepresented in the literature, but there are a number of key
Samset, Knut, Williams, Terence
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Past Carbon Emissions and Future Targets for the Olympic Games
The Geographical Journal, EarlyView.Short Abstract The global visibility and political weight of the Olympic Games can inspire climate change action. Yet, at the same time, the Olympics are also significant carbon emitters. To date, however, there is a lack of a systematic assessment of past carbon emissions and extrapolation of future targets considering international agreements.
David Gogishvili, Martin Müller
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A new holistic framework for megaproject portfolio success
Project Leadership and SocietyPortfolios comprising multiple megaprojects are increasingly prevalent across various industries, yet literature at the intersection of project portfolio management and megaproject management remains limited.
Thomas Tepstad Berge +2 more
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Megaproject complexity attributes and competences: lessons from IT and construction projects
International Journal of Information Systems and Project Management, 2019 Megaprojects have been associated with persistent underperformance technically, financially, socially and environmentally. This underperformance has been attributed to the inherent complexity attributes and the gaps in the form of the mismatch in the ...
Maxwell Nyarirangwe +4 more
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The Cultural Ecosystem of Megaprojects: The Interconnectedness of Organizational Elements and their Wider Institutional Contexts [PDF]
, 2014 In the multi-layered structure of megaprojects, organizational cultures emerge within different temporary multi-organizational teams (TMOs) responsible for execution.
Kusuma, I
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From Hurricane Irma to the Grindavík eruptions: volatility premiums in disaster governance
Disasters, Volume 50, Issue 2, April 2026.Abstract Environmental volatility can inflate property values even as it destroys them. To show how, this article pairs a postcolonial micro‐state in the Caribbean (Sint Maarten after Hurricane Irma) with a Nordic welfare town (Grindavík in Iceland following volcanic eruptions) because they occupy the opposite ends of the governance capacity spectrum ...
Thor Björnsson
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Buildings, 2021 Risk appetite is a crucial component that plays a key role in the decision-making process of project risk management. Despite rising scholarly interest in project risk management, risk appetite has received little attention thus far.
Sanna Ullah +5 more
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Taming the ‘trolls’ : major public projects in the making [PDF]
, 2015 Major projects are not yet sufficiently understood, and practices in project governance and project management do not yet reflect the current state of knowledge of large, complex projects.
Klakegg, Ole Jonny +2 more
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