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This is a draft of a chapterarticle that has been accepted for publication by oxford university press in the forthcoming book the oxford handbook of megaproject management edited by bent flyvbjerg due for publication in 2016 abstract why do megaprojects frequently encounter performance problems, crisis and even failure, and. The oxford handbook of megaproject management oxford handbooks. Taken together, the two books are intended to map out the best of what is worth reading in the megaproject management literature, past and present. This handbook provides state of theart scholarship in the emerging field of megaproject management. I have read neither, and both are collections of papers i may just hunt them down independently. The oxford handbook of organizational decision making. A reflection of the stateoftheart in megaproject research. Megaprojects are large, they are constantly growing ever larger, and more and more are being built in what has been called the biggest investment boom in history. The oxford handbook of megaproject management provides stateoftheart scholarship in the emerging field of megaproject management.
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