Acknowledgments

We would like to thank and acknowledge the Project Management Institute (PMI) for generously funding the grant “Understanding Relationship-Based Procurement” for part of our research. We would also like to thank and acknowledge the Australian Research Council (ARC) for funding part of this research under the ARC Linkage Grant LP110200110 to gather data in parallel with the PMI grant, and to thank the Alliancing Association of Australasia (AAA) for their funding of the study “Profiling Professional Excellence in Alliance Management in 2010.” This book draws upon the AAA original work in the light of the PMI and ARC research studies.

We also would like to acknowledge and thank Mr. Alain Mignot who was CEO of the AAA until its amalgamation with Infrastructure Partnerships Australia (IPA). He was an original industry research collaborator of ours whose intellect, insights, and support, as well as his inspiration has been a significant driving force for much of the research into alliancing in Australasia.

We also acknowledge and thank all academic and practitioner subject matter expert participants who generously gave their time. We would especially like to thank Dr. Mattias Jacobsson and Dr. James Harley who participated as part of our team in data gathering and analysis as part of the ARC grant and provided insights that contributed to this book. Dr. Jacobsson also provided valuable specific feedback on the draft. Without the contribution of our research collaborators for this book and the practitioner participants who generously gave us on average an hour of their valuable time, this research would not have been possible.