The Role of Governance within the Sustainability Performance of Public-Private Partnerships

Grit, M.J. (2023) The Role of Governance within the Sustainability Performance of Public-Private Partnerships. Master thesis.

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Abstract

Currently, the United Nations are promoting Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) as a promising tool for accomplishing the Sustainable Developments Goals (SDGs). However, the actual contribution of PPPs to sustainable development remains inconclusive, because the sustainability considerations appear to be difficult to integrate at the PPP project-level. Governance is determined to be important within this integration, yet the empirical research on the direct influence of governance elements on PPP sustainability performance is rather limited. This has resulted in a deficient understanding about governance of sustainable-oriented PPPs, by PPP policymakers and practitioners. In order to gain a more adequate understanding about the influence of governance on the PPP sustainability performance, this study developed a conceptual PPP Sustainability Governance Framework (SGF), based on the collaborative governance framework (CGF) of Liu et al. (2022). Subsequently, it utilized this SGF to be able to conduct a comparative research approach, that has analysed the governance elements and sustainability performances, of two Dutch PPPs of the water channel maintenance sector. On the one hand, the findings indicate that structural governance elements form the starting point for integrating sustainability within PPPs, and that process governance elements have the ability the make further developments to this integration. While, on the other hand, the structural elements also determine to what extent the process elements can utilize this ability for further developments. Theoretical and practical implications are composed based on these findings. In the end, there is concluded that more in-depth research is required, about the influence of governance on PPP sustainability performance, to accurately determine if PPPs are indeed a suitable solution for achieving the SDGs.

Item Type:	Thesis (Master)
Degree programme:	Environmental & Infrastructure Planning
Supervisor:	Verweij, S.
Date Deposited:	10 Feb 2023 10:11
Last Modified:	10 Feb 2023 10:11
URI:	https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/4124

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