Abstract
Questions about the ‘effectiveness’ of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) have been raised for quite some time now. Although implementation and performance problems are given some attention while carrying out systematic literature review regarding PPPs, there is no systematic literature review available to the best of our knowledge that analyses/reviews the ways in which the effectiveness of PPPs is measured. This review of 107 articles intends to fill this gap by reviewing the peer-reviewed articles/papers published during the years 2000-2016. It particularly investigated three areas including (a) the ways in which the effectiveness of PPPs is defined, (b) methods used by the researchers to measure the effectiveness of PPPs, and (c) theories/perspectives explaining the effectiveness of PPPs. The results indicated that the effectiveness of PPPs is not clearly defined in the existing literature. Moreover, there is no consensus on what counts as an effective PPP. Regarding the methods of measurement, the overwhelming majority of researchers focused only on the identification of factors as opposed to the actual measurement of effectiveness. With respect to theoretical perspectives, governance theories were used in most cases. Based on the findings of this systematic literature review, it is recommended in the current research to use six broad categories of methods/factors identified as a starting point to measure the effectiveness of PPPs.
Highlights
Rising budgetary constraints, escalating infrastructure cost and the onslaught of private sector inspired the New Public Management (NPM) reforms mainly responsible for the post-80s diversification in the mode of public service delivery (Turner et al, 2015)
Wide spread appeal of Private Partnerships (PPPs) notwithstanding, skepticism abounds when it comes to effectiveness of PPPs
This review was undertaken to examine the latest research on the subject and come up with the answers to three questions dealing with definition of PPP effectiveness, methods to measure effectiveness of PPP and theories and perspectives explaining PPP effectiveness
Summary
Rising budgetary constraints, escalating infrastructure cost and the onslaught of private sector inspired the New Public Management (NPM) reforms mainly responsible for the post-80s diversification in the mode of public service delivery (Turner et al, 2015). The role of the public sector has undergone a transformation from that of a service provider to a co-producer of services (Bovaird et al, 2015) This paradigmatic shift has been epitomized in the concept of PublicPrivate Partnership (hereafter PPP). Given this rapidly changing and complex landscape of public service delivery, governments as well as International Financial Institutions (IFIs) are progressively more attracted towards PPPs (Bovaird, 2004; Bovaird et al, 2016). PPP mode has been mentioned by (Savas & Savas, 2000) as being in the middle of two extremes of entirely public and fully privatized It has been associated with the partnership between public and private stakeholders for the development of infrastructure based on shared risks, responsibilities, costs, and benefits (Grimsey & Lewis, 2007; Koppenjan, 2005)
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