Oxford Handbook of Megaproject Management

<em>The Oxford Handbook of Megaproject Management</em> 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 <br>a national health or pensions IT system a new wide-body aircraft or staging the Olympics. <p/>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<br>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<br>wide range of project types from hard infrastructure to soft change projects. In-depth case studies illustrate salient points. <p/>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.<br>