1st Edition

Governance and Governmentality for Projects Enablers, Practices, and Consequences

Edited By Ralf Muller Copyright 2017
270 Pages
by Routledge

270 Pages
by Routledge

270 Pages
by Routledge

This research-based book takes an organization-wide perspective to describe the governance and governmentality for projects in organizations. Governance of projects defines and directs the ways managers of projects, programs, and project portfolios carry out their work. Governmentality is the way the managers of these managers present themselves to those they lead. Governance and... Read more

1. Introduction

Ralf Müller

2. Organizational Project Governance

Ralf Müller

Part 1: Concepts, Theories, and Models

3. Governance Theories

Ralf Müller

4. Governance Models and Paradigms

Ralf Müller

5. Governance Institutions

Ralf Müller, Erling S. Andersen, Ole Jonny Klakegg, and Gro Holst Volden

Part 2: Organizational Enablers for Organizational Project Governance and Governmentality

6. Tactical Organizational Enablers

Ralf Müller

7. Strategic Organizational Enablers

Ralf Müller

Part 3: Practices in the Private and Public Sector

8. Private Sector Practices

Ralf Müller

9. Governance in Public Projects: The Norwegian Case

Ole Jonny Klakegg and Gro Holst Volden

Part 4: Consequences for and of Governance

10. Governance and Project Success

Robert Joslin

11. Governance Mechanisms in Projects

Ralf Müller

12. Project Governance and Project Ethics

Ralf Müller and Øyvind Kvalnes

Part 5: Cases of Organizational Project Governance

13. The Sugarloaf Alliance Case Study

Beverley Lloyd-Walker and Derek Walker

14. Governance at the Front-end: Managing the Clash of Objectives in Project Organizations

Shankar Sankaran and Christopher Biesenthal

15. Governance and Governmentality at Tasly Pharmaceuticals

Dan Li

Biography

Ralf Müller is Professor of Project Management at BI Norwegian Business School, Norway.