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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
This Research Handbook provides a cutting-edge review of complex
project organizing (CPO), and suggests fruitful avenues for future
research with a focus on grand challenges and a sustainable future.
Split into four sections, this Research Handbook addresses
transitions within the field of CPO that could, and should, take
place to achieve our shared aspirations for a better future.
Featuring a team of contributors that is both interdisciplinary and
geographically widespread, chapters provide a clarification of core
concepts of complex project organizing, comprehensive coverage of
leading theoretical perspectives for CPO, as well as a discussion
of key empirical research themes. In particular, special attention
is given to the implications of Industry 4.0 for complex project
organizing. The Research Handbook on Complex Project Organizing
develops a guiding path to help academics - both established and
early career - and research students in the fields of business
leadership, operations management, and knowledge management
navigate through these important topics, and envision how to
respond to the grand challenges we all face.
In order to improve competitiveness and performance, corporations
must embrace advancements in digitalization. Successful
implementation of knowledge management is a huge factor in
corporate success. Analyzing the Impacts of Industry 4.0 in Modern
Business Environments is a critical scholarly publication that
explores digital transformation in business environments and the
requirement for not only a substantial management change plan but
equally the two essential components of knowledge management:
knowledge sharing and knowledge transfer. Featuring a broad range
of topics such as strategic planning, knowledge transfer, and
cybersecurity risk management, this book is geared toward
researchers, academicians, and students seeking current and
relevant research on organizational knowledge intensity and
monitoring of knowledge management development.
This book presents the latest findings relating to behavioral
economics and the digital tools applied to contract management.
There has been a decisive change in the role of contracts in the
past decade, with contracts being transformed from purely legal
necessities designed to protect against worst-case scenarios into
tools for optimizing ongoing and mutually profitable business
relationships with customers. There is an increasing emphasis on
tight contracts, where time-risk and additional costs are passed on
to the prime contractor, who may suffer heavy penalties in the
event of non-performance. Contracts shape the behavior of the
parties involved and as such have a major impact on project
success. The contract manager's goals are to protect the interests
of the company and its shareholders by minimizing the company's
financial and contractual liabilities and to maximize its
profitability while ensuring end-user satisfaction. The contract is
usually written before the design is fully developed, and there is
often a mismatch between contractual specifications and what the
customer actually wants. Good contract management entails
preserving the rights of the contractor by ensuring all parties
respect their contractual obligations; providing advice to the
project managers and engineering team; preparing profitable
amendments to contracts or change requests; maintaining good
record-keeping in the event that claims arise; filing notices when
necessary; and guiding the project to a profitable conclusion. Like
the ancient Chinese game of Go, moves made early in the game
(notification of events) can shape the nature of a potential
conflict one hundred moves later (arbitration threat). Contract
management can also smooth the relationship between partners,
allowing well-balanced "don't-trade-a-dollar-for-a-penny" contracts
to be managed through an established process rather than as
sporadic events (we cannot claim to be in control of our business
if we are not in control of the contracts on which it depends).
Managing a contract with a mix of incomplete manuals, fragmented
information, and poor planning can drive companies to "reinvent the
wheel." Contract management promotes a three-phase sequence to
streamline information flows across the contract lifecycle, from
the bid phase to performance, project closeout, and final payments.
"Nearly every major figure of his era," writes his biographer
Adrian Frazier, "worked with Moore, tangled with Moore, took his
impression from, or left it on, George Moore." The Anglo-Irish
novelist George Moore (1852-1933) espoused multiple identities. An
agent provocateur whether as an art critic, novelist, short fiction
writer or memoirist, always probing and provocative, often
deliberately controversial, the personality at the core of this
book invented himself as he reinvented his contemporary world.
Moore's key role-as observer-participant and as satirist-within
many literary and aesthetic movements at the end of the Victorian
period and into the twentieth century owed considerably to the
structures and manners of collaboration that he embraced. This book
throws into relief the multiple ways in which Moore's work can
serve as a counterbalance to established understandings of late
nineteenth and early twentieth-century literary aesthetics both
through innovative scholarly readings of Moore's work and through
illustrative case studies of Moore's collaborative practice by
making available, for the first time, two manuscript plays he
co-authored with Pearl Craigie (John Oliver Hobbes) in 1894. It is
this collaborative practice in conjunction with his cosmopolitan
outlook that turned Moore into a key player in the fin-de-siecle
formation of an international aesthetic community. This book
explores the full range of Moore's collaborations and cultural
encounters: from 1870s Paris art exhibitions to turn-of-the-century
Dublin and London; from gossip to the culture of the barmaid; from
the worship of Balzac to the fraught engagement with Yeats; from
music to Celtic cultural translation. Moore's reputation as a
collaborator with the most significant artistic individuals of his
time in Britain, Ireland and France in particular, but also in
Europe more widely, provides a rich exposition of modes of exchange
and influence in the period, and a unique and distinctive
perspective on Moore himself.
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