Implementation of Transport Infrastructure PPPs in the Czech Republic, Finland, Poland and Slovakia – A Comparative Analysis on National Contexts

Although the concept of public-private partnership has been adopted in most countries in the world, relatively little attention has been paid to the ways PPP has been implemented and how the national political, legislative and administrative context affect the success of public-private partnerships....

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Main Authors: Leviakangas, Pekka, Witz, P., Lukasiewicz, A., Szekeres, K.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Inderscience Publishers 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/61643
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Witz, P.
Lukasiewicz, A.
Szekeres, K.
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Witz, P.
Lukasiewicz, A.
Szekeres, K.
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description Although the concept of public-private partnership has been adopted in most countries in the world, relatively little attention has been paid to the ways PPP has been implemented and how the national political, legislative and administrative context affect the success of public-private partnerships. This paper compares the PPP experience of the three post-communist countries - the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland - with that of Finland. It shows that although PPP was equally alien to the countries' political and administrative systems, Finland has managed to implement PPPs without any serious problems while in the three transitive countries the same process produced numerous major failures and controversies. Several factors behind this contrast are identified including political and institutional stability, different nature of regulatory frameworks and established managerial practices. In the end, important lessons are drawn from the cases for both the most developed and transitive countries implementing PPPs.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-616432018-06-12T00:55:44Z Implementation of Transport Infrastructure PPPs in the Czech Republic, Finland, Poland and Slovakia – A Comparative Analysis on National Contexts Leviakangas, Pekka Witz, P. Lukasiewicz, A. Szekeres, K. Although the concept of public-private partnership has been adopted in most countries in the world, relatively little attention has been paid to the ways PPP has been implemented and how the national political, legislative and administrative context affect the success of public-private partnerships. This paper compares the PPP experience of the three post-communist countries - the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland - with that of Finland. It shows that although PPP was equally alien to the countries' political and administrative systems, Finland has managed to implement PPPs without any serious problems while in the three transitive countries the same process produced numerous major failures and controversies. Several factors behind this contrast are identified including political and institutional stability, different nature of regulatory frameworks and established managerial practices. In the end, important lessons are drawn from the cases for both the most developed and transitive countries implementing PPPs. 2015 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/61643 10.1504/IJMNE.2015.073916 Inderscience Publishers restricted
spellingShingle Leviakangas, Pekka
Witz, P.
Lukasiewicz, A.
Szekeres, K.
Implementation of Transport Infrastructure PPPs in the Czech Republic, Finland, Poland and Slovakia – A Comparative Analysis on National Contexts
title Implementation of Transport Infrastructure PPPs in the Czech Republic, Finland, Poland and Slovakia – A Comparative Analysis on National Contexts
title_full Implementation of Transport Infrastructure PPPs in the Czech Republic, Finland, Poland and Slovakia – A Comparative Analysis on National Contexts
title_fullStr Implementation of Transport Infrastructure PPPs in the Czech Republic, Finland, Poland and Slovakia – A Comparative Analysis on National Contexts
title_full_unstemmed Implementation of Transport Infrastructure PPPs in the Czech Republic, Finland, Poland and Slovakia – A Comparative Analysis on National Contexts
title_short Implementation of Transport Infrastructure PPPs in the Czech Republic, Finland, Poland and Slovakia – A Comparative Analysis on National Contexts
title_sort implementation of transport infrastructure ppps in the czech republic, finland, poland and slovakia – a comparative analysis on national contexts
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/61643