Governing and (re)producing project governance

Abstract

2.1 INTRODUCTION 2.2 CONTRACTUAL AND RELATIONAL INTERPLAY IN PPPs 2.3 REALIST SOCIAL THEORY FOR STUDYING GOVERNING ACTIVITY 2.3.1 Governance Structures and Situational Logics 2.3.2 Governing Activity: Positioned-Practices and Reflexivity 2.3.3 Cycles of Interplay and Levels of Change 2.4 TOWARD A PROCESS FRAMEWORK OF GOVERNING ACTIVITY IN ONGOING PPPs 2.5 ILLUSTRATIVE CASE 2.5.1 Approach and Methods 2.5.2 Functional Change as a Triggering Event 2.5.3 Governing Activity 2.5.4 Complementarity/Substitution from a Dynamic Perspective 2.5.5 Cycles of Governing Activity and Underlying Managerial Struggle 2.6 DISCUSSION 2.6.1 Complexity of the Interplay Between Contractual and Relational Governance 2.6.2 Governing Activity and Governance Structure 2.6.

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