Commercial management of projects : defining the discipline - Lowe, David; Leiringer, Roine (Oxford, UK ; Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2006)
Introduction: commercial management - defining a discipline? / David Lowe and Roine Leiringer -- External milieu -- Competition / Hedley Smyth -- Culture / Richard Fellows -- Procurement in the context of commercial management / David Langford and Mike Murray -- Corporate milieu -- Corporate governance and shareholder value / Mark Georgen and Luc Renneboog -- Strategies for solutions / Andrew Davies and Michael Hobday -- The effectiveness of marketing spend / Chris Preece, Krisen Moodley and Michael Brown -- Trust and commercial managers : influences and impacts -- Will Swan, Peter McDermott and Malik Khalfan -- Outsourcing / Jan Br$1'X^(Bhner -- Projects milieu -- Management of uncertainty / Kalle K$1!WO(Bk$1)2q(Ben -- Conflict management and dispute resolution / Peter Fenn -- Performance measurement / Malcolm Horner -- Value management of complex projects / John Kelly -- Project milieu -- The governance of project coalitions - towards a research agenda / Graham M Winch -- Contract management / Will Hughes -- Bidding / David Lowe and Martin Skitmore -- Strategic purchasing and supply chain management in the project environment : theory and practice / Andrew Cox and Paul Ireland -- Cost value reconciliation : signals from site embodied logic and management accounting on construction projects / David Hughill and Andy Ross -- After word : identifying and defining a new inter-disciplinary research agenda for commercial management / David Lowe.s
Includes bibliographical references and index
Keywords: Project management; Industrial management