Managing Sustainable Development Programmes - A Learning Approach to Change

Managing Sustainable Development Programmes is about understanding the difficulties and complexities of large change programmes and projects in both the private and public sectors. The authors' research reveals an extraordinary level of failure in these projects, the analysis of which overturns much of our traditional thinking about project deliver

List of contents

Chapter 1 Running Programmes for Sustainable Development; Chapter 2 Models of Change and Evaluation; Chapter 3 Key Research Findings; Chapter 4 Evaluation for Sustainable Development; Chapter 5 Lessons from Earlier Programme Initiatives; Chapter 6 Lessons from Competence Initiatives; Chapter 7 Innovation and the Regional Fund; Chapter 8 Owning, Steering and Evaluating Large Programmes; Chapter 101 Afterword;

About the author

Göran Brulin is a senior analyst at the Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth. He is also adjunct professor in local and regional innovations at the University of Linköping, at the HELIX Excellence Center. Brulin is responsible for the on-going evaluation and interactive research of the Swedish Regional Structural programmes. Lennart Svensson is a professor in Sociology at the University of Linköping, and a research leader at the HELIX Excellence Center. His research is about local and regional change, project work, learning evaluation, gender equality, workplace learning, and union work. Svensson is the author or co-author of over 30 books. Svensson and Brulin co-authored 'Learning Through On-going Evaluation' (Studentlitteratur 2009).

Summary

Managing Sustainable Development Programmes is about understanding the difficulties and complexities of large change programmes and projects in both the private and public sectors. The authors' research reveals an extraordinary level of failure in these projects, the analysis of which overturns much of our traditional thinking about project deliver

Product details

• Authors: Gran Brulin, Brulin Gran, Lennart Svensson
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.06.2024
• EAN: 9781032836928
• ISBN: 978-1-03-283692-8
• No. of pages: 232
• Weight: 500 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Strategic Planning, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Project Management, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Marketing / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Sales & Selling / Management, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Government & Business, Politics & government, International business, Sales & marketing management, Project management, business strategy, Politics and government, Sustainable agriculture, Management of specific areas, Public ownership / nationalization, Sales and marketing management