Esbjörn Segelod

Project Cost Overrun

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a new way of thinking about the causes and consequences of cost overrun to firms and society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 602g
• ISBN-13: 9781107173040
• ISBN-10: 1107173043
• Artikelnr.: 48955892

Autorenporträt

Esbjörn Segelod is Professor in Business Administration at Mälardalen University, and was previously at Göteborgs Universitet, Sweden and Uppsala Universitet, Sweden. Most of his research has focused on the appraisals, assessments and processes associated with investments in major firms, entrepreneurship, the economic aspects of software development and accounting history. He has previously published nine books, four as editor.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Project planning, cost estimates and deviations in major projects
3. The consequences of cost overrun
4. A model of cost overrun and growth
5. The logic of economics versus the logic politics
6. Explaining cost overrun, summary and conclusions.