Effects of Justice Perceptions on Private Sector’s Cooperative Behavior in PPP Project

Abstract

By integrating justice theory and relational governance, this study aims to extend the existing research on PPP projects by finding the effects of distributive, procedural and interactional justice on cooperative behavior from the private sectors’ perspective. Through a thorough literature review, a concept model including justice perceptions and cooperative behavior is developed. With the help of 163 valid data samples from an online structured questionnaire survey, SEM is used to examine the model proposed. The study finds: (1) when interactional justice is higher, the private sector will perceive higher distributive justice and procedural justice and these two dimensions of justice perceptions act a mediating role in interactional justice and cooperative behavior; (2) distributive, procedural and interactional justice are actively related to the cooperative behavior, and the total impact of procedural justice is the greatest, and the smallest is interactional justice. This study enriches the theory of relationship governance and makes new contributions to the governance of PPP projects. And PPP project management practices can be given.