Global Projects: Institutional and Political Challenges

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Summary

An analysis of the institutional and social movement processes that surround global infrastructure projects.

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List of contributors
Preface
Introduction
Foundational Themes:
Global projects: distinguishing features, drivers, and challenges
The institutional environment of global projects
Social movements and the growth in opposition to global projects
Institutional Differences and Global Projects: Empirical Studies:
Rules vs. results: sources and resolution of institutional conflicts on Indian Metro Railway projects
Institutional exceptions on global projects: a process model
Local embeddedness of firms and strategies for dealing with uncertainty in global projects
Who needs to know what? Institutional knowledge and global projects
Political Conflicts and Global Projects:
Site fights: explaining opposition to oil and gas pipeline projects in the developing world
To talk or to fight? Effects of strategic, cultural and institutional factors on renegotiation approaches in public-private concessions
Governance Strategies and Structures:
Network-based strategies and competencies for political and social risk management
Organizations enabling public-private partnerships: an organization field approach
References
Index
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