Search for dissertations about: "megaprojects"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 swedish dissertations containing the word megaprojects.

  2. 1. Designing the Design Organisation: Client-consultant coordination in a large infrastructure project

    Author : Therese Eriksson; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; organisational heuristics; infrastructure; project routines; practice approach; megaprojects; public projects; organisational routines; coordination;

    Abstract : Large infrastructure projects are unique and last for a long time, but they are still temporary organisations. The technology involved is often complex, and the uncertainty is high. Managing such projects and coordinating all the actors involved is a complicated task for both suppliers and clients. READ MORE

  4. 2. Ghostlines: Movements, Anticipations, and Drawings of the LAPSSET Development Corridor in Kenya

    Author : Johannes Theodor Aalders; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Infrastructure; Kenya; Im Mobilities; Temporalities; Comics;

    Abstract : The Lamu Port-South Sudan-Ethiopia-Transport (LAPSSET) corridor is a partly completed development corridor in Kenya that will connect the eponymous places via roads, pipelines and railway lines, if completed. This thesis investigates how inhabitants of the traversed area navigate and shape the spatio-temporal landscape of the corridor, following three motifs: lines created through moving, anticipating, and drawing. READ MORE

  5. 3. Coping with Financial Stigma : a study of budgetary identity work in a candidature for the Olympic Winter Games

    Author : Kai Krauss; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : This book provides an account of the intersection between management and accounting in one of the world’s most notorious financial disasters – the Olympic Games. More specifically, it is based on a case study of a candidature for the Olympic Winter Games, where project managers were occupied with pitching their budget for such a megaproject in the light of prevailing cost controversies. READ MORE

  6. 4. Managing Mega technological projects : The case of the defence industry and Network Centric Warfare projects

    Author : Lars Löfgren; Institut Polytechnique de Paris; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Försvarssystem; Systems science for defence and security;

    Abstract : This thesis project consists of acomparative work on three different militarymegaprojects regarding Network CentricWarfare, in three different countries: theUnited States, France and Sweden. The aim ofthe comparison is to find similarities anddifferences with respect to why, and if, theprojects failed, or are failing, and if they failed - to what extent. READ MORE

  7. 5. Collaborative project delivery models in infrastructure construction

    Author : Anna af Hällström; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY;

    Abstract : When projects grow into megaprojects, their management becomes more complex due to an increasing number of inter-organisational interfaces within the project organisation. Spurred on by both the growing size of projects but also the adversity and conflict-prone culture characteristic of construction, the infrastructure industry has turned to collaborative project delivery models based on relational governance. READ MORE