Introduction: studying global projects. -- Global projects: distinguishing features, drivers, and challenges. -- The institutional environment of global projects. -- Social movements and the growth in opposition to global projects. -- Rules versus results: sources and resolution of institutional conflicts on Indian metro railway projects. -- Institutional exception on global projects: a process model. -- Local embeddedness of firms and strategies for dealing with uncertainty in global projects. -- Who needs to know what? Institutional knowledge and global projects. -- "Site fights": explaining opposition to pipeline projects in the developing world. -- To talk or to fight? effects of strategies, cultural, and institutional factors on renegotiation approaches in public-private cencessions. -- Network-based strategies and competencies for political and social risk management in global projects. -- Organizations enabling public-private partnerships: an organization field approach.

1. International cooperation
2. Public -- Private sector cooperation -- Developing countries
3. Economic development projects -- Developing countries
4. Infrastructure (Economics) -- D3veloping countries