Search for dissertations about: "mega-projects"

Found 5 swedish dissertations containing the word mega-projects.

2. 1. Justifying mega-projects : An analysis of the Swedish high-speed rail project

   Author : Erik Ronnle; Företagsekonomiska institutionen; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; transport policy; decision making; cost-benefit analysis; narrative; mega-projects;

   Abstract : Mega-projects are a growing phenomenon worldwide. More and more projects are started and they grow ever bigger in size. At the same time, there is overwhelming evidence that mega-projects tend to run late, overrun in terms of costs and fail to deliver the expected benefits. READ MORE

4. 2. Critical Infrastructure at the Dawn of a Techno-Organizational Shift : Accountability and Public-Private Governance

   Author : Lindy Newlove-Eriksson; Thomas Sandberg; Jan Hallenberg; Staffan Furusten; KTH; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Accountability; Critical Infrastructure; Public-Private Governance; Industriell ekonomi och organisation; Industrial Economics and Management;

   Abstract : How public-private governance affects accountability for safety in the realm of critical infrastructure is the focus of this doctoral thesis. Case studies of previously under-researched crises and their cascading affects across infrastructures and governance systems, comparative analysis of public-private governance (PPG) of infrastructures such as space and urban rail junctions, and analysis of wider sets of policies and doctrine pertaining to critical infrastructures and their governance are presented. READ MORE

5. 3. Project management ontology : the organizational learning perspective

   Author : Heli Aramo-Immonen; Kaj U. Koskinen; Jari Palomäki; Finland Tampere Tampere University of Technology; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Mega-project; project learning; organizational learning; systems thinking; activity theory; management ontology;

   Abstract : In a recent interview with the Financial Times, the chief executive of Royal Dutch Shell, Mr. Jeroen van der Veer, said he “keeps faith in ‘elephant’ projects” referring to the Russian gas mega-project that Shell had fallen eight months behind schedule with and had cost overruns twice the original estimate. Mr. READ MORE

6. 4. Unsettled City: Neoliberal redevelopment, state crisis, slum resettlement & biopolitical struggle in Mumbai

   Author : Rishi Jha; Social utsatthet och ojämlikhet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Urban redevelopment; Dispossession; Governmentality; Bio-necro-politics; Bureaucracy; Slum; Resettlement; Mumbai;

   Abstract : This dissertation concerns capitalist urban redevelopment and the government of urban housing poverty. It examines the ways urban redevelopment regimes shape resettlements and governance of urban populations in Mumbai. READ MORE

7. 5. Swedish infrastructure policy and planning - conditions for sustainability

   Author : Fredrik Pettersson; Miljö- och energisystem; []
   Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Infrastructure; policy; planning; sustainability;

   Abstract : Sustainability has been on the agenda for decades. Yet it is not evident that the development we are witnessing can qualify as sustainable. Departing from an understanding of the adoption of sustainability as an on-going, unfinished process the thesis explores conditions for sustainability in Swedish transport infrastructure policy and planning. READ MORE