Abstract
This study assessed the critical success factors (CSFs) of public-sector road construction projects execution from the perspective of definitive stakeholders associated with such projects by drawing on in-depth semi-structured interviews (16) and surveys (372) in Ghana, thirty-four (34) CSFs were identified. Using Relative Importance Index (RII), Spearman Rank Correlation Coefficients, and Kendall’s Coefficient of Concordance and the Chi-square test of significance statistics, the top ten most important factors in descending order are: the absence of political interference, project continuity by successive governments, adequate project funding, support from financial institutions and donor agencies and countries, government commitment to the project, absence of clientelism, absence of nepotism, no political corruption, payments of contractors on time and absence of court injunction or legal suit and land litigations. This study contributes to road construction CSFs in the context of public sector road construction in developing economies.
Highlights
Government policies are often translated into programmes and projects and one of the areas in which these programmes and projects are implemented is infrastructure projects within the transport sector (Goodman and Love 1980)
Despite the extensive studies devoted to the study of road infrastructure projects, little has been done in relation to critical success factors (CSFs) in developing countries in sub-Saharan African
The private sector capability has a direct effect on project success during the construction period whilst the government capability is effective at the operational phase. Even though these prior studies paint a picture of the CSFs in road construction projects, they focus mainly on case studies; and are devoted to private-public partnership (PPPs) model; findings may not apply to the entire road construction projects in a developing country context
Summary
Government policies are often translated into programmes and projects and one of the areas in which these programmes and projects are implemented is infrastructure projects within the transport sector (Goodman and Love 1980). Despite the huge capital outlay in road construction projects; evidence suggests that results of such investments have been mixed (Appiah et al, 2017; Acheampong et al, 2018) This suggests that the need to assess the CSFs to improve road construction performance is important since findings would be of guidance to transport policymakers and road transport policy in particular; as well as road construction projects executioners to make informed decisions to enhance successful execution. The contribution of this study is in three main folds: academic, practitioners and policy perspective It adds to the existing literature on the CSFs on road construction projects by deepening our understanding of CSFs in public-sector road construction projects. The final section concludes the study by providing the summary and concluding remarks, the limitations and suggestions for further studies
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