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Print Price: $63.00

Format:
Paperback
576 pp.
Numerous figures and tables, 171 mm x 246 mm

ISBN-13:
9780199655823

Publication date:
July 2012

Imprint: OUP UK


The Oxford Handbook of Project Management

Edited by Peter W. G. Morris, Jeffrey K. Pinto and Jonas Söderlund

Series : Oxford Handbooks in Business and Management

The Oxford Handbook of Project Management presents and discusses leading ideas in the management of projects. Positioning project management as a domain much broader and more strategic than simply 'execution management', this Handbook draws on the insights of over 40 scholars to chart the development of the subject over the last 50 years or more as an area of increasing practical and academic interest. It suggests we could be entering an emerging 'third wave' of analysis and interpretation following its early technical and operational beginnings and the subsequent shift to a focus on projects and their management.

Topics dealt with include: the historical evolution of the subject; its theoretical base; professionalism; business and societal context; strategy; organization; governance; innovation; overruns; risk; information management; procurement; relationships and trust; knowledge management; practice and teams. This handbook is of particular relevance to those interested in the research issues underlying project management.

Readership : Academics, researchers, and graduate students in Business and Management with an interest in Project Management; Project Management professionals.

Peter W.G. Morris, Jeffrey Pinto, and Jonas Söderlund: Introduction: Towards the Third Wave of Project Management
Part I: History and Foundations
1. Peter W.G. Morris: A Brief History of Project Management
2. Jonas Söderlund: Theoretical Foundations of Project Management: Suggestions for a Pluralistic Understanding
3. Rodney Turner, Jeffrey Pinto and Christophe Bredillet: The Evolution of Project Management Research: the Evidence from the Journals
4. Damian Hodgson and Daniel Muzio: Prospects for Professionalism in Project Management
Part II: Industry and Context
5. Karlos Artto, Andrew Davies, Jaakko Kujala, Andrea Prencipe: The Project Business: Analytical Framework and Research Opportunities
6. Mike Bresnen and Nick Marshall: Projects and Partnerships: Institutional Processes and Emergent Practices
7. Gernot Grabher and Oliver Ibert: Project Ecologies: A Contextual View on Temporary Organizations
Part III: Strategy and Decision-Making
8. Jonas Söderlund and Fredrik Tell: The P-form Corporation: Contingencies, Characteristics, and Challenges
9. Christoph Loch and Stylianos Kavadias: Implementing Strategy through Projects
10. Sergio Pellegrinelli, David Partington and Joana G. Geraldi: Program Management: an Emerging Opportunity for Research and Scholarship
11. Tim Brady and Mike Hobday: Projects and Innovation: Innovation and Projects
Part IV: Governance and Control
12. Ralf Müller: Project Governance
13. Bent Flyvbjerg: Over Budget, Over Time, Over and Over Again: Managing Major Projects
14. Graham M. Winch and Eunice Maytorena: Managing Risk and Uncertainty on Projects: a Cognitive Approach
15. Jennifer Whyte and Raymond Levitt: Information Management and the Management of Projects
Part V: Contracting and Relationships
16. Bernard Cova and Robert Salle: Shaping Projects, Building Networks
17. Stewart Clegg, Kjersti Bjørkeng, Tyrone Pitsis: Innovating the Practice of Normative Control in Project Management Contractual Relations
18. Nuno Gil, Hedley Smyth And Jeffrey Pinto: Trust in Relational Contracting and as a Critical Organizational Attribute
Part VI: Organizing And Learning
19. Lars Lindkvist: Knowledge Integration in Product Development Projects: a Contingency Framework
20. Martin Hoegl, Miriam Muethel, and Hans Georg Gemuenden: Leadership and Teamwork in Dispersed Projects
21. Markus Hällgren and Anders Söderholm: Projects-As-Practice: New Approach, New Insights

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Peter W.G. Morris is Professor and Head of the School of Construction and Project Management at University College London (UCL). He is the author of over 110 papers and several books on the management of projects. A previous Chairman of the Association for Project Management, he was awarded the Project Management Institute's 2005 Research Achievement Award, IPMA's 2009 Research Award, and APM's 2008 Sir Monty Finniston Life-Time Achievement Award. Jeffrey K. Pinto holds the Andrew Morrow and Elizabeth Lee Black Chair in the Management of Technology at Penn State University. He is the author or editor of 23 books and over 120 scientific papers. Dr. Pinto is a two-time recipient of the Distinguished Contribution Award from the Project Management Institute (1997, 2001) for outstanding service to the project management profession. He received PMI's Research Achievement Award in 2009. Jonas Söderlund is Professor at BI Norwegian School of Management and responsible for its executive education within the area of project management. He is a founding member of the KITE Research Group (Knowledge Integration and Innovation in Transnational Enterprise) based at Linköping University. He has researched and published widely on the management and organization of projects and project-based firms and the evolution of project competence.

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Special Features

  • Presents the latest cutting edge theory on current areas of interest in Project Management.
  • Chapters written by leading international scholars from the UK, Europe, and the US.
  • Shows how projects have become increasingly significant in organizations.
  • Covers history and current trends.
  • Identifies avenues of potential future research.