Search Results - subject:"Capital Projects"

Team management for fast projects: an empirical study of process industries

Scott‐Young, Christina; Samson, Danny - In: International Journal of Operations & Production Management 29 (2009) 6, pp. 612-635

of capital projects. Although scholars theorise that project success depends as much on the effective management of … at the closeout of 56 capital projects implemented in four continents by 15 Fortune 500 companies in the process … performance in capital projects. Originality/value – This study breaks new ground by exploring whether key team practices are …

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Assessing decision tools for secondary risks of capital projects : Weighing EIA versus more complex approaches

Caspary, Georg - In: Management Decision 46 (2008) 9, pp. 1393-1398

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss the relative uses of decision tools for secondary risks of capital … projects. Design/methodology/approach – The approach is a comparison of traditional limited approaches (notably EIA) versus … emerging more complex approaches at assessing secondary risks. Findings – In many context, notably in the case of large capital …

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Developments in the public‐private partnership funding of Scottish schools

Hannah, Gwen - In: Journal of Applied Accounting Research 9 (2008) 2, pp. 112-125

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the development of the public finance initiative (PFI) in a £2 billion investment to build new schools in Scotland in order to understand how the PFI negotiation process is evolving as the public and private sectors' experiences of PFI grows....

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Capital asset management process: the case of Hose & Fittings Corporation

Bae, Sung C.; Park, Bell J.C.; Wagner, Tracy - In: International Journal of Managerial Finance 1 (2005) 3, pp. 204-220

more accurate evaluation of costs and benefits of capital projects. The suggested evaluation techniques include detailed …

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Capital asset management process: the case of Hose & Fittings Corporation

Bae, Sung C.; Park, Bell J.C.; Wagner, Tracy - In: International Journal of Managerial Finance 1 (2005) July, pp. 204-220

more accurate evaluation of costs and benefits of capital projects. The suggested evaluation techniques include detailed …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005002474

An assessment of various approaches for evaluating project strategic benefits : Recommending the strategic index

Lefley, Frank - In: Management Decision 42 (2004) 7, pp. 850-862

Capital projects can be complex and offer strategical benefits that are difficult to quantify in financial terms and …

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Private funding for capital projects

Nicely, Donna D. - In: The Bottom Line 15 (2002) 4, pp. 163-166

augment public resources for major capital projects. Use of private and public funds can have beneficial effects for the …

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Organisational knowledge and responses of public sector clients towards value management

Sik‐wah Fong, Patrick - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 12 (1999) 5, pp. 445-454

their organisational knowledge, responses and use of value management (VM). It concludes that VM is essential to capital … projects both to reduce costs and to improve the quality of finished projects. In simple terms, it helps to achieve value for … unnecessary at this point in time. An encouraging aspect of the findings is that whenever VM studies are applied in capital …

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Social capital: trading and mixing knowledge

Gould, B - In: The Antidote 3 (1998) 8, pp. 10-10

Acknowledges mixing knowledge depends on people being able to work together, to understand each other and to rely on each other — the outcome is new knowledge. Determines that social capital exists both inside and outside organizations, arguing that organizations are better than markets at...

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The Administrative Environment: An Unrecognised and Neglected Key to Greater Sustainability in Development Lending

Kearns, James M. - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 1 (1988) 1, pp. 5-15

Many Third World capital project investments lack “sustainability” — they are often successfully designed and implemented but then fail to operate well enough or long enough to realise the full intended benefits. It is argued here that the administrative environment within which such...

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