Abstract
The current infrastructure public-private partnership (PPP) literature overstates the mechanistic requirements of PPPs, but overlooks the social dynamics underlying their implementation. The current study addresses this gap by exploring the activities and strategies several social actors deployed to initiate and implement an airport PPP project in Saudi Arabia. By connecting insights from the PPP and institutional entrepreneurship literatures, two main contributions are made. First, it is demonstrated that the process of institutional entrepreneurship goes well beyond the agentic powers of a few institutional entrepreneurs, and entails the collaborative actions of several actors working across multiple institutional fields. Second, the study emphasizes the importance of theorizing the implementation of PPP projects as a cognitive and a social undertaking in which social actors actively address the institutional and technical constraints that obstruct PPP projects.
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