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Large projects are complex undertakings representing major investments. Often problems arise because of failure at the start of a project in terms of establishing governance, choosing the appropriate concept, analyzing the proposal and environment, and maximizing the utility of the investment, all within complex and political decision-making structures. As a result, many projects fail even though they were implemented successfully, simply because the project concept was wrong. While attention has been paid to project execution, this area is underrepresented in literature. However, considerable advances have been made, both practical and in putting the behavior and management of major projects on a proper theoretical basis. This volume therefore provides a resumé of the state of this domain. It is a guide for practitioners, decision-makers and their advisors, as well as students. It takes a narrow view of the project, widening to place it within the organization, then the organizational nexus, and finally the political environment, to give a holistic view on how bad ideas can be avoided and good ideas developed into successful projects.

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