Before the pandemic, healthcare systems were under pressure everywhere in the world. Massive investments were engaged in healthcare to face the aging of the population, to integrate new technologies, and so on. This is a well-known story. During the pandemic, healthcare systems were all about to...

Inter-organizational networks have become the de facto organization structure for the delivery of large projects. This chapter describes a three-layered framework for the governance of these networks, from the investor, via intermediate governance levels, to the individual network, for the...

For a long time, inter-organizational networks have been considered to be either a hybrid form of governance mixing elements of markets and hierarchies, or a unique form beyond market and hierarchy. From both points of view, inter-organizational project networks, also known as project networks...

Fairness is one of the four good governance principles originally adopted by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development; however, it has received little attention in governance research. This chapter investigates the relevance of fairness for the governance of projects and adopts...

This chapter will focus on the governance layer of organizational project management (OPM) in a seven-layer model for OPM. It will explain the functions of the seven layers in the model developed previously by the authors. Then using the OPM governance layer it will illustrate four governance...

This chapter will explain how a viable systems model developed from cybernetics, the science of communications and controls in machines and living things, can be adapted to the governance of initiatives delivered through projects and programs aimed to achieve the United Nations Sustainable...

Organizations set up portfolios and programs to coordinate their collections of projects, implement and renew their strategies, and optimize their use of limited resources. To succeed in these endeavors in their unique contexts, organizations need systems and structures as well as dedicated...

Crises and their management have always remained a subject of interest in project studies, but have not been much studied from the viewpoint of crises and their management. The importance of crises as low-probability high-impact events increases when the setting is high scale (in terms of budget...