Capital Project Management, Volume I

Preface

Strategic Management is a rigorous corpus of scholarship in the Academy of Management, as is Technology and Innovation Management. Project ­Management is found within Production/Operations Management, but is more generally led by the Project Management Institute, a professional trade organization. The volumes in this series intersect conceptually where all these fields meet, and in actual practice where Capital Projects are Planned, ­Budgeted, and Financed.

A main premise of this series is that corporations make internal capital investments through a standard budgeting process, where Capital ­Projects circumscribe the major efforts. For the most part the view in Volume I is Executive. The challenge becomes managing multiple Capital Projects, ...