Outputs (3)

Conclusions (2022)
Book Chapter
Williams, T. M. (2022). Conclusions. In T. M. Williams, K. Samset, & G. Holst Volden (Eds.), The Front-end of Large Public Projects: Paradoxes and Ways Ahead (191-204). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003257172-8

Projects are the key organisational form used to deliver transformational policy change and build new systems in the public sector. Traditional thinking has looked at the project as an exercise to carry out a defined task in a specific time, at a spe... Read More about Conclusions.

Project success (2022)
Book Chapter
Williams, T. M. (2022). Project success. In T. M. Williams, K. Samset, & G. Holst Volden (Eds.), The Front-end of Large Public Projects: Paradoxes and Ways Ahead (10-42). London: Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003257172-2

This chapter looks at the academic background to this question, dividing the idea of success into strategic and tactical success. It looks at the various paradoxes that accompany major public projects as criteria for success are developed. The combin... Read More about Project success.

The Front-end of Large Public Projects: Paradoxes and Ways Ahead (2022)
Book
Williams, T., Samset, K., & Holst Volden, G. (Eds.). (2022). The Front-end of Large Public Projects: Paradoxes and Ways Ahead. London: Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003257172

Large public projects represent major complex investment and whilst there has been much written about how to develop, manage and deliver such projects, practice still does not match up with expectations. In this book, researchers from the Norwegian C... Read More about The Front-end of Large Public Projects: Paradoxes and Ways Ahead.