Technological innovation in PPPs: incentives, opportunities and actions

By Roine Leiringer. 2006

147 citations recorded by the source corpus.

From a construction perspective, Public‐Private Partnership projects (PPPs) are often credited as providing real incentives for the actors involved as well as a business environment that is conducive to innovation and improved practices. The validity of four common rhetorical arguments used to promote the PPP procurement route is explored: collaborative working, design freedom, long‐term commitment and risk transfer. Particular interest is given to the extent to which espoused intentions correlate with experienced realities in allowing actors involved in the design and construction phases to be presented with, and able to exploit, opportunities for technological innovation. It is argued that there is reason to be cautious in fully accepting the purported benefits of the PPP framework and that the arguments often presented need to be revised. Alternative interpretations are provided.

Subfields: Law, Strategy and Management

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Citations in the corpus

• Contracts, relationships and integration: towards a model of the procurement of complex performance (2009, unknown): “Consider for example, the bilateral interdependence (Carney, 1998; Lonsdale, 2005b; Bennett and Iossa, 2006; Leiringer, 2006) that is created by very significant levels of exchangespecific investment (e.g. building a hospital for a public health authority).”
• The dynamics of contractual and relational governance: Evidence from long-term public–private procurement arrangements (2008, unknown): “Moreover, long-term PFI supply arrangements tend to increase asset specificity (Bennett and Iossa, 2006; Lonsdale, 2005) and uncertainty related to long-term supplier commitment (Leiringer, 2006).”