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Large Engineering Projects Strategy

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The project execution strategy of LEPs involves choices about issues such as partnership, outsourcing, modularity, etc. Projects must interact with their complex and uncertain environment and adapt their execution strategy to the ongoing changes. As a consequence, LEPs cannot be defined once and for all, rather they are shaped progressively from the initial concept by the dialectical interaction of stakeholders.

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Caron, F. (2013). Large Engineering Projects Strategy. In: Managing the Continuum: Certainty, Uncertainty, Unpredictability in Large Engineering Projects. SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology(). Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-5244-4_2

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