Table of Contents

List of Tables List of Figures Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; T.Williams  & K.Samset The Influence of Strategic Context on Project Management Systems: A Senior Management Perspective; V.K.Narayanan  & R.DeFillippi The Proposal; K.Samset  & G.Holst Volden Assessing the Proposal; C.Chapman Designing the Project; A.Edkins  & A.Smith Decision-makings in Organisation; T.O'Leary Decision-making around the Project – How and Why 'Glory' Projects Fail; S.Cicmil  & D.Braddon Decision-making in the Political Environment; T.Christensen Concluding Note; T.Williams

About the Author

DEREK BRADDON Emeritus Professor of Economics at the Bristol Business School, University of the West of England, UK CHRIS CHAPMAN Emeritus Professor of Management Science, University of Southampton, UK TOM CHRISTENSEN Professor of Public Administration and Public Policy at the Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, Norway SVETLANA CICMIL Director of Postgraduate Research and Associate Professor in Global Operations, Faculty of Business and Law, University of the West of England, UK ROBERT DEFILLIPPI Professor and Chair of Strategy and International Business and the founder and Director of the Center for Innovation and Change Leadership at the Sawyer Business School, Suffolk University, USA ANDREW EDKINS Director of the Bartlett School of Construction & Project Management at UCL, UK GRO HOLST VOLDEN Research Director of the Concept Research Program at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway V.K. NARAYANAN Associate Dean for Research, Director of the PhD program and the Center for Research Excellence, and the Stubbs Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship in Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA TIM O'LEARY Visiting Lecturer at the University of Southampton, UK ALAN SMITH Director of University College London's Mullard Space Science Laboratory and the Centre for Systems Engineering, UK