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  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,060 Views
27 Pages

Effects of Contract Governance on the Relation of Partnership Critical Success Factors and the Performance of Malaysia Public-Private Partnership Initiatives

  • Azlan Shah Abdul Latif,
  • Noor Azman Ali,
  • Zahira Ishan,
  • Nor Siah Jaharuddin,
  • Rohail Hassan and
  • Adibah Abdul Latif

Much research has been carried out to discover partnership critical success factors that influence public-private partnership success. Since most public-private partnership projects are long-term in nature and include contractual arrangements, there...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,071 Views
14 Pages

2 June 2021

The global economy has been hit by crises in recent decades and the COVID-19 pandemic has contributed to great uncertainty in the possibility of a lasting recovery and an energy transition that will enable sustainable green growth. Budgetary constrai...

  • Article
  • Open Access
71 Citations
18,280 Views
16 Pages

24 February 2019

The strategic goal of city management is to ensure its sustainable development which requires a balance of rare resources. From the operational perspective, namely projects implementing sustainable development, the balance refers to human resources....

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
8,297 Views
17 Pages

Digital Transformation of Public-Private Partnership Tools

  • Lyudmila Tolstolesova,
  • Igor Glukhikh,
  • Natalya Yumanova and
  • Otabek Arzikulov

The need for modern infrastructure as a prerequisite for sustainable development, poverty alleviation, and improvement of the quality of life of the population is a global problem that requires searching for and attracting large amounts of long-term...

  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
12,080 Views
18 Pages

16 October 2018

The most recent international experience shows that public-private partnership (PPP) is a public procurement that improves the management of public and municipal property in the construction sector. This article proposes a method for ranking countrie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
89 Citations
7,194 Views
16 Pages

9 September 2021

This novel research looked into the role of public-private partnership investment in energy in affecting Pakistan’s long-term environmental sustainability. Employing time series data from 1992 to 2018 and utilizing the autoregressive distributive lag...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,864 Views
25 Pages

22 July 2025

This study examines the role of public–private partnerships in promoting the sustainable development of travel destinations through a comparative analysis of two emblematic heritage-based hospitality projects: Dar Tantora in Al Ula, Saudi Arabi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,489 Views
16 Pages

Boosting Energy Efficiency in Turkey: The Role of Public–Private Partnership Investment

  • Mehmet Balcilar,
  • Gizem Uzuner,
  • Chinazaekpere Nwani and
  • Festus Victor Bekun

26 January 2023

This study draws motivation from the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (7.8.11), which highlight pertinent issues across the globe, among which are access to energy, responsible consumption, and sustainable development. To this end, we exp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,019 Views
19 Pages

13 October 2025

This paper investigates investments in public–private partnerships within the transport sector and their impact on CO2 emissions from transportation in the East Asian and Pacific regions. It explores the relationships between CO2 emissions from...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,243 Views
21 Pages

Evolutionary Mechanism of Trust for Public–Private Partnership Projects with Public Participation

  • Wenjuan Zhang,
  • Yuanming Wang,
  • Enzhong Li,
  • Chengyi Zhang,
  • Huimin Li and
  • Srishti Hada

26 January 2025

Trust plays a pivotal role in sustaining cooperative relationships and serves as the cornerstone of successful cooperation among participants in public–private partnership (PPP) projects. A decline in trust can result in unethical behavior, fra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,069 Views
12 Pages

A Dysfunctional Legal Framework for Failed Public–Private Partnership Projects: Accounting or Economics?

  • Vicente Alcaraz Carrillo de Albornoz,
  • Juan Molina Millán,
  • Antonio Lorenzo Lara Galera and
  • Belén Muñoz-Medina

28 November 2022

Public–private partnerships (PPP) are complex long-term arrangements used in public infrastructure, public services or public facilities projects. To ensure that PPPs transfer enough risk to the private sector, European directives first and mem...

  • Article
  • Open Access
52 Citations
13,729 Views
19 Pages

Assessment of Public–Private Partnership in Municipal Solid Waste Management in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

  • Vin Spoann,
  • Takeshi Fujiwara,
  • Bandith Seng,
  • Chanthy Lay and
  • Mongtoeun Yim

26 February 2019

The overall responsibility for waste management in Phnom Penh Capital (PPC) has rested with the municipal authorities and contracted waste collection companies. Providing waste collection services is a major challenge for Phnom Penh due to the increa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
897 Views
19 Pages

23 July 2025

This paper proposes an incentive scheme based on a public–private partnership (PPP) to encourage low-carbon travel behavior by inducing the mode choice shift from private cars to public transit. The scheme involves three key entities: travelers...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
8,397 Views
20 Pages

The effects of the world economic and financial crisis, which began in 2007 and is still in progress, has made increasingly sharp the line of demarcation between those able to access home ownership on the free market, and those unable to do so. For t...

  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,582 Views
16 Pages

26 June 2023

Relationship management is critical in public–private partnership (PPP), especially when the PPP concept is adopted to build community flood disaster resilience. In this regard, this study aims to conduct a systematic review to explore the rela...

  • Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,351 Views
24 Pages

Public-Private Partnership: A Bibliometric Analysis and Historical Evolution

  • Mathew Azarian,
  • Asmamaw Tadege Shiferaw,
  • Tor Kristian Stevik,
  • Ola Lædre and
  • Paulos Abebe Wondimu

9 August 2023

The broad and extensive application of public-private partnership (PPP), as well as the divergent documented definitions and experiences, have led to a translucent perspective of PPP and strained academia and industry to reach a consensus on the majo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,953 Views
16 Pages

Public–Private Partnerships have been implemented globally as a key procurement strategy for addressing the issue of funding gaps amidst the immense pressure to deliver new major infrastructure projects. However, in current practice, procuremen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,344 Views
13 Pages

Systems Engineering Methodology for Designing Digital Public–Private Partnership Platforms

  • Igor Nikolaevich Glukhikh,
  • Liudmila Anatolevna Tolstolesova and
  • Otabek Anzor ugli Arzikulov

The modern approach to realization of large, expensive projects with long payback periods in various sectors of infrastructure often involves combining the financial resources of public authorities and the private sector through a public–privat...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,774 Views
6 Pages

24 October 2023

Studies about the challenges and lessons learned from Public–Private partnerships (PPPs) exist in construction all around the world, yet it is not certain how to use these challenges to improve the performance of projects. Building Information...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,857 Views
23 Pages

In construction, risk is inherent in each project, and success involves meeting defined objectives beyond budget and schedule. Factors vary for infrastructure projects, and their correlation with performance must be studied. In the case of public–pri...

  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
8,175 Views
19 Pages

20 October 2023

Cultural heritage governance and management has been shifting from the sole authority of the state and public bodies towards approaches that list multi-actor partnerships in several combinations involving public actors, civil society, private actors...

  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,613 Views
24 Pages

17 September 2020

Public-private partnerships (PPPs) have proliferated and adapted to public development in recent decades; within it, the value for money (VfM) assessment defines the feasibility of the project procurement model as one of the essential components of P...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,252 Views
21 Pages

Developing Public–Private Partnership Projects to Enhance Innovation Capability in the Defence Industry

  • Marina Mikhailovna Pukhova,
  • Irina Anatolievna Merkulina and
  • Dmitry Yuryevich Bashkov

9 October 2021

The relevance of this study resides in the need to determine the key measures for a more effective application of the mechanism of public–private partnerships (PPP) in the implementation of large-scale infrastructure projects, aimed at developing the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,346 Views
14 Pages

28 July 2021

Tourism is a relevant sector in terms of social development, considering its contribution to the quality of life for people with special needs. Accessible tourism, by virtue of its complexity, requires the development of studies on the collaboration...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
13,962 Views
24 Pages

Public–Private Partnership (PPP) in Road Infrastructure Projects: A Review of Evolution, Approaches, and Prospects

  • Yorela Yenifer Esperilla-Niño-de-Guzmán,
  • María de los Ángeles Baeza-Muñoz,
  • Francisco Jesús Gálvez-Sánchez and
  • Valentín Molina-Moreno

8 February 2024

Public–private partnerships (PPPs) are a widely used procurement method for constructing, maintaining, and operating roads, constituting an alternative to the traditional public works model (TPW). This is because the efficiency of the PPP model...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,878 Views
20 Pages

29 October 2020

Many international public–private partnership projects have suffered from frequent project pending status or failure because of dissimilar interests among stakeholders over projects’ long development period. Thus, this study compares the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,914 Views
21 Pages

Determinant Features to Reduce the Infrastructure Gap in Saudi Arabia under a Public–Private Partnership Scheme

  • Adolfo Guerrero,
  • Antonio Lara-Galera,
  • Vicente Alcaraz Carrillo de Albornoz and
  • Carlos Arévalo Sarrate

Saudi Arabia is forecast to develop a significant number of infrastructure projects, as recorded in its strategy Saudi Vision 2030. To implement this strategy, the country intends to leverage public–private partnerships. This research has vario...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,778 Views
22 Pages

30 June 2024

Public–private partnerships (PPPs) are long-term contracts between government entities and private companies, and are increasingly being adopted in developing countries due to the large need for investments in sectors such as water and sewerage...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,030 Views
16 Pages

This paper demonstrates the use of an Excel-based tool called the “Electric Vehicle-Charging Infrastructure Financial Analysis Spreadsheet Tool”, or “EVCI-FAST”, developed to analyze public–private partnership approaches...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,285 Views
22 Pages

13 April 2018

Two kinds of evaluative criteria are associated with Public–Private Partnership (PPP) infrastructure projects, i.e., private evaluative criteria and public evaluative criteria. These evaluative criteria are inversely related, that is, the highe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
6,464 Views
14 Pages

2 December 2019

Local governments around mainland China initiated over 14,000 public–private partnership (PPP) projects with a total investment of 18 billion RMB in recent years, but nearly half have been withdrawn since the end of 2017, which raised wide conc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
6,487 Views
15 Pages

3 July 2019

The world is witnessing a global momentum of public–private partnership (PPP) development, along with the inherent complexities associated with the long-term construction, operation, and maintenance periods of numerous PPP projects. Performance...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,402 Views
20 Pages

Public participation is an important procedure of the environmental impact assessment. Effective public participation is essential to the Public–Private Partnership (PPP) projects as such projects usually exert tremendous impacts on the environ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,511 Views
17 Pages

27 July 2023

The successful implementation of infrastructure projects through public–private partnerships (PPPs) significantly relies on a well-designed procurement scheme; however, there is currently no established systematic decision-making model to identify th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
8,606 Views
27 Pages

18 June 2018

Scientific capital structure is the key to guarantee sufficient funds and achievement of objectives of Public–Private Partnership (PPP) projects, while inappropriate capital structure has caused the failure of many projects. Meanwhile, sustaina...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,217 Views
19 Pages

5 September 2025

Social sustainability is crucial in Public–Private Partnership (PPP) elderly care projects, as it ensures that the private sector prioritises improving stakeholders’ quality of life alongside profit generation. This study explores how to...

  • Review
  • Open Access
55 Citations
7,383 Views
23 Pages

Dramatic changes in the global energy market due to COVID-19 pandemic, the OPEC+ agreement, and increasing rates of green energy share in the world community have brought negative effects on the oil sector. In the long term, oil will reduce its impor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
58 Citations
14,406 Views
18 Pages

3 August 2016

The electric vehicle charging infrastructure is in the initial development period in China, where there is an imbalanced supply and demand structure, an increasingly mature institutional environment, and an imperfect support system. The infrastructur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,307 Views
13 Pages

7 July 2020

Recent years have witnessed a rapid development of Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) as a new model of public service provision. Transitioning from bureaucrat- to market-oriented management of public services entails organizational changes that may a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
4,267 Views
15 Pages

10 March 2021

Environmental sustainability is an important issue for current scholars and policymakers in the East Asian and Pacific region. The causal and long-run effects of technological innovation, public–private partnership investment in energy, and renewable...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
5,531 Views
15 Pages

Risk Severity Matrix for Sustainable Public-Private Partnership Projects in Developing Countries

  • Shabir Hussain Khahro,
  • Tauha Hussain Ali,
  • Shafiqul Hassan,
  • Noor Yasmin Zainun,
  • Yasir Javed and
  • Shahbaz Aziz Memon

17 March 2021

The concept of a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) is not new for developing countries, although many initiatives are being contemplated for potential implementation. This paper evaluates the crucial success factor for the effective execution of PPP p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,016 Views
14 Pages

Rural solid waste management is a severe challenge in China. The Public-Private Partnership (PPP) is an effective method for rural solid waste management. However, policy efforts aimed at stimulating the adoption of PPP in rural solid waste managemen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,850 Views
19 Pages

In recent years, public–private partnership (PPP), as an alternative strategy in the delivery of infrastructure services, has developed rapidly in China. However, the implementation of PPP projects differs significantly between provinces and mu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
923 Views
23 Pages

12 June 2025

The vulnerabilities of critical infrastructure and other disruptive events expose urban communities to severe risks. Public–private partnership (PPP) is an intensive cooperation between public and private actors with enhanced and more innovativ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,506 Views
14 Pages

Social Responsibility Initiatives for Public-Private Partnership Projects: A Comparative Study between China and Ghana

  • Robert Osei-Kyei,
  • Albert P. C. Chan,
  • Yao Yu,
  • Chuan Chen,
  • Yongjian Ke and
  • Bashir Tijani

4 March 2019

Sustainability is a global issue and its enhancement through modern forms of procurements, such as public-private partnership (PPP), has become topical considering the huge impact of PPP activities on society, the economy, and the environment. Howeve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,487 Views
26 Pages

Enhancing the Sustainable Performance of Public–Private Partnership Projects: The Buffering Effect of Environmental Uncertainty

  • Waseem Ali Tipu,
  • Yasir Hayat Mughal,
  • Ghulam Muhammad Kundi,
  • Kesavan Sreekantan Nair and
  • Ramayah Thurasamy

3 December 2024

The purpose of this study was to investigate the buffering (moderating) effect of environmental uncertainty (EU) on the relationship between the critical success factors (CSFs) of public–private partnership projects (PPPPs) and sustainable perf...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
5,688 Views
7 Pages

29 June 2020

Around the world, countries are struggling to address the immediate and long-term impacts of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on their (sub)national public–private partnership (PPP) programs. Burdened with the real possibility of wides...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,915 Views
18 Pages

5 June 2022

To alleviate project financial pressure and improve performance, the public-private partnership (PPP) arrangement was introduced by the central government of China to facilitate the sustainable development of infrastructure. However, arising governme...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
32 Citations
6,342 Views
20 Pages

11 June 2022

The integration of sustainable practices into infrastructure projects under the auspices of public-private partnerships (PPPs) is vital in the attainment of United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Since the inception of the SDGs i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,363 Views
25 Pages

4 November 2022

This article examines the application of one of the forms of modern public management—public–private partnership (PPP)—in the forestry sector. This contributes to the search for new forms and methods that uphold the principles of su...

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