Managing Participants’ Behaviors: A Framework to Improve the Process Efficiency of Transport Public-Private Partnerships
Publication: Journal of Infrastructure Systems
Volume 28, Issue 1
Abstract
Public-private partnerships (PPPs) are critical for delivering infrastructure assets worldwide. They encompass a variety of public and private organizations, and therefore, participants’ behavior can significantly affect the life-cycle performance of projects. However, the extant literature shows a lack of attention to the process efficiency of PPPs from behavioral and economic perspectives. Thus, we developed a managerial framework in this study, which is pivotal to understanding and managing the relationships between participants’ behaviors and project process efficiency in PPPs. Using social network analysis, a total of two case studies of transport PPPs were undertaken to examine and refine the developed paradigm. This study expands the knowledge of the organizational management of PPPs and will be useful for enhancing project delivery through an improved management of participating organizations’ behaviors.
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Data Availability Statement
Some or all data, models, or code that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request, i.e., data for SNA modeling and regression.
Acknowledgments
This study was supported by the Liaoning Social Science Planning Fund (L16BJY022), the Scientific Research Fund of Liaoning Provincial Department of Education (LN2020Q06), and the Humanities and Social Science Funding of the Ministry of Education of China (21YJCZH023).
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Received: Jan 10, 2021
Accepted: Sep 8, 2021
Published online: Oct 18, 2021
Published in print: Mar 1, 2022
Discussion open until: Mar 18, 2022
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