Understanding why complex projects overrun: developing a framework for identifying and managing risks
Despite a growing wealth of experience and knowledge concerning projects they experience cost overruns. Answering a call from leading academics for new research perspectives on projects, this thesis examines project cost overruns using a systemic modelling perspective and a case study design. The fi...
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Curtin University
2015
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| author | Alexander, James |
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| description | Despite a growing wealth of experience and knowledge concerning projects they experience cost overruns. Answering a call from leading academics for new research perspectives on projects, this thesis examines project cost overruns using a systemic modelling perspective and a case study design. The findings suggest that feedback dynamics involving loss of client trust; delay triggers such as design changes; and contextual conditions such as human resource policies, form a complex system that can induce overruns. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-11872017-02-20T06:39:51Z Understanding why complex projects overrun: developing a framework for identifying and managing risks Alexander, James Despite a growing wealth of experience and knowledge concerning projects they experience cost overruns. Answering a call from leading academics for new research perspectives on projects, this thesis examines project cost overruns using a systemic modelling perspective and a case study design. The findings suggest that feedback dynamics involving loss of client trust; delay triggers such as design changes; and contextual conditions such as human resource policies, form a complex system that can induce overruns. 2015 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1187 en Curtin University fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Alexander, James Understanding why complex projects overrun: developing a framework for identifying and managing risks |
| title | Understanding why complex projects overrun: developing a framework for identifying and managing risks |
| title_full | Understanding why complex projects overrun: developing a framework for identifying and managing risks |
| title_fullStr | Understanding why complex projects overrun: developing a framework for identifying and managing risks |
| title_full_unstemmed | Understanding why complex projects overrun: developing a framework for identifying and managing risks |
| title_short | Understanding why complex projects overrun: developing a framework for identifying and managing risks |
| title_sort | understanding why complex projects overrun: developing a framework for identifying and managing risks |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1187 |