Governance of projects and project contractual relations /

"In today's project-driven economy, organizations navigate increasingly complex contractual arrangements that go beyond traditional project management. This book presents a comprehensive metatheory of project governance, integrating insights from organizational science, strategic managemen...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lech, Przemyslaw (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Leiden : Brill, 2026.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Theories related to projects and project governance. Organizational economics theories ; Strategic management theories ; Other theories ; Theory of project and project management
  • The nature and mechanisms of project governance. The nature of project governance ; Project governance ; Governance of project contractual relations
  • Metatheory of governance of project contractual relations. Review of existing knowledge on project contractual relations ; Foundations of a metatheory of governance of project contractual relations ; Internal project governance setup ; Hybrid project governance setups ; Multilateral centralized hybrid governance setup ; Prime-contractor hybrid governance setup ; Alliance
  • Towards a project governance framework. The paradox of the interfirm project management ; Project-based versus operations-based organizations ; Setting up a project governance framework ; Governance of a waterfall project ; Governance of an agile project ; Governance of a hybrid project ; Governance of projects with undefined methods ; Biased and misaligned drivers of project contract definition and governance
  • Conclusions.