The Strategic Management of Large Engineering Projects: Shaping Institutions, Risks, and Governance

Miller, Roger; Lessard, Donald R.

ISBN 10: 0262122367 / ISBN 13: 9780262122368

Published by MIT Press, Massachusettes, 2000

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Octavoin black cloth, gilt titles to spine; dust jacket; 237 pp: illustrations; 24 cm. The authors studied sixty large engineering projects (LEPs), projects as various as a hydro dam in Venezuela, offshore oil platforms in Norway, a subway in Turkey, and the Boston Harbor cleanup. What they found during their research will allow managers to understand and evaluate the relationships between institutions and strategy, risk management, and corporate governance in generalContents: The IMEC Research Group. The IMEC Research Program. 1. Public goods and private strategies: making sense of project performance / Roger Miller and Donald Lessard. 2. Transformations in arrangements for shaping and delivering engineering projects / Roger Miller and Serghei Floricel. 3. Mapping and facing the landscape of risks / Donald Lessard and Roger Miller. 4. Project shaping as a competitive advantage / Roger Miller and Xavier Olleros. 5. Strategic systems and templates / Serghei Floricel and Roger Miller. 6. Building governability into project structures / Roger Miller and Serghei Floricel. 7. Transforming institutions / Pascale Michaud and Donald Lessard. 8. The financing of large engineering projects / Richard Brealey, Ian Cooper and Michel Habib. 9. Partnering alliances for project design and execution / Brian Hobbs and Bjorn Andersen. 10. Rising to the challenge of evolving high-stakes games / Roger Miller and Donald Lessard. Appendix A. Short description of the sixty projects studied in the IMEC program. Appendix B. Attendees at the IMEC Forums in Montreal, Poitiers, and James Bay. First Edition (presumed; no prior editions or printings cited).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Strategic Management of Large Engineering Projects: Shaping Institutions, Risks, and Governance
• Publisher: MIT Press, Massachusettes
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262122367
• ISBN 13: 9780262122368
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science, Technology & Computers

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Synopsis

As the number, complexity, and scope of large engineering projects (LEPs) increaseworldwide, the huge stakes may endanger the survival of corporations and threaten the stability ofcountries that approach these projects unprepared. According to the authors, the "front-end"engineering of institutional arrangements and strategic systems is a far greater determinant of anLEP's success than are the more tangible aspects of project engineering and management.The book isbased on an international research project that analyzed sixty LEPs, among them the Boston Harborcleanup; the first phase of subway construction in Ankara, Turkey; a hydro dam on the Caroni Riverin Venezuela; and the construction of offshore oil platforms west of Flor, Norway. The authors usethe research results to develop an experience-based theoretical framework that will allow managersto understand and respond to the complexity and uncertainty inherent in all LEPs. In addition tomanagers and scholars of large-scale projects, the book will be of interest to those studying therelationship between institutions and strategy, risk management, and corporate governance ingeneral.Contributors Bjorn Andersen, Richard Brealey, Ian Cooper, Serghei Floricel, Michel Habib,Brian Hobbs, Donald R. Lessard, Pascale Michaud, Roger Miller, Xavier Olleros.

About the Author

Roger Miller is Jarilowsky Professor of Technological Innovation and Competitiveness in the Department of Mathematics and Engineering at the École Polytechnique Montréal