Politics of Deregulation or Project Management

Politics of Deregulation

Author: Martha Derthick

The authors concentrate on three cases of deregulation: airlines, trucking, and telecommunications. They find important similarities among the cases and discuss the implications of these findings for two broader topics: the role that economic analysis has played in policy change, and the capacity of the American political system for transcending narrow interests.

Interesting textbook: Principles of Food Sanitation or Brunch

Project Management

Author: Moor

Organisation structure can make or break the project manager…

New forms of organisation are emerging in the construction industry – from partnering to virtual teams. There is a growing need to consider project organisational structures carefully. This book differs from the many other texts on project management by concentrating on the challenges of devising relevant structures for project management.

It examines the diverse factors to be considered when determining an initial overall organisation for new construction projects. It also looks at how to vary the organisation in response to the differing environments over the lifetime of a project.

In a pragmatic, accessible style, the author has both added to the body of knowledge in this area and provided the project management with a set of effectivemanagement tools to:

• examine the criteria for designing structures within an organisation

• identify the factors relevant to the development of an initial project organisation structure

• assess the significance of an individual factor in the operation of a structure

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgements
	Preface
Pt. I	Structure Past	1
1	Searching for the Real Project: the Historical Approach	3
2	Open System Characteristics in Industrial Terms: Relatively Recent Developments	33
Pt. II	Structure Present	69
3	Establishing a Project's Relevant Environmental Forces: Recognise the Relevant - Ignore Everything Else?	71
4	Further Factors in a Possible Model for Organisation Structure Design	112
5	Control is Not Total	135
Pt. III	Structure Future?	167
6	The Genome Approach	169
7	Taking Up the Options	197
8	Future Challenges	214
App. 1	Glossary of Project Management Terms	225
App. 2	Glossary of Structure and Gene Terms	279
	References	281
	Index	285