International Development Projects: Peculiarities and Managerial Approaches

Acknowledgments

We would like to thank and acknowledge the Project Management Institute (PMI) for funding part of our research, and in particular Deedra Grandelli and Carla Messikomer for their help in managing the research process. We would also like to thank all project managers and experts who answered our survey and who participated in the interviews. In particular, we thank Rodolfo Siles (PM4DEV), John Cropper (PM4NGO), Paul Steinfort and Irene Bengo (Politecnico di Milano) for their invaluable support.

Then we would like to thank Benedetta Corti for his precious work in the early phase of this research program and the thesis students involved in the research process: Dario Mozzi, Davide Villano, Matteo Falgari and Daniele Salvatore.