Infrastructure development through PPPs in India: criteria for sustainability assessment

In recent years, social responsibility (SR) in public–private partnership (PPP) projects has become crucial due to the need for governments and policy‐makers to develop public infrastructures that are sustainable and offer additional social benefits. However, a systematic review of the extant literature on PPP‐SR is lacking. This study therefore addresses this gap by conducting a comprehensive review through a three‐stage systematic process. From the review, 38 SR factors are identified from 26 selected papers on PPP‐SR published in peer‐reviewed journals from 1990 to 2016. The most reported SR factors in PPPs include “establishing an environmental management system,” “innovation” and “ensuring accountability, legitimacy and transparency.” The 38 SR factors are classified into three interrelated categories, namely economic, environmental and community development. The findings inform researchers and practitioners of the SR factors that need to be considered to enhance sustainable development in PPPs. Also, the checklist of PPP‐SR is useful for further empirical investigations.

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Review of social responsibility factors for sustainable development in public–private partnerships

Osei‐Kyei

Chan

et al. 2018

“…In fact, the private sector involved in PPP projects would not automatically contribute to regional sustainability (J. F. M. Koppenjan & Enserink, ). For example, the involvement of the private sector in PPP projects, with its profit‐making mind‐set, usually promotes the investments being confined to providing infrastructures in high‐value locations, whereas less profitable geographical regions and project types are often overlooked (Patil et al, ). In this respect, the role of governance mechanisms at the institutional level is essential.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, intergenerational equity should also be emphasized in defining the PPPs' contribution to regional social sustainability. From the intergenerational perspective, the cost of infrastructures delivery by PPPs should be fairly distributed over their life cycle, which means the current investment in PPP projects should not result in a transfer of massive fiscal liabilities to future generations (Patil et al, ; Roehrich, Lewis, & George, ). When governments borrow money for the construction and operation of infrastructure PPP projects, it is easy to consider the immediate social impacts of developing project or loaning itself (Vanclay, ).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Evaluating the regional social sustainability contribution of public‐private partnerships in China: The development of an indicator system

Yuan

Zhang

Tan

et al. 2019

Public-private partnerships (PPPs) have been increasingly adopted in China. Sustainability of PPPs has become a priority for a sustainable development of PPPs. Most prior studies focus on sustainable implementation of PPP projects. Few research efforts have been done to examine the impacts of PPPs to sustainability from an external perspective and a more macro geographical scale. Meanwhile, the social aspect of the sustainability of PPPs has not been widely studied. Therefore, this study aims to propose a social sustainability contribution evaluation system (SSCES) for PPPs to evaluate PPPs' contribution to regional social sustainability at the institutional level. An indicator system of the SSCES for PPPs was developed, which included 8 requirements for socially sustainable development and 33 social sustainability indicators. The weights of indicators were determined by using the analytic hierarchy process method. The results indicate that, in the context of China, promoting peopleoriented urbanization in PPPs can help enhance regional social sustainability. This study provides a useful evaluation tool for various stakeholders to evaluate the sustainability of PPPs from an institutional level, especially for local governments to review current PPP polices and make improvements.

“…The private partner is expected to be efficient to provide well maintenance in TPPP projects as they involved in both the construction stage and operation stage and consider the cost of the whole concession period as a package (Sharma & Cui, ). The maintenance affects the project quality and sustainability, which subsequently influence the users' satisfaction (Patil et al, ). It is understandable that improvement of project quality was considered as a critical sustainability factor.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Developing a project sustainability index for sustainable development in transnational public–private partnership projects

Chen

Osei‐Kyei

et al. 2019

During the last couple of years, sustainability has become topical in transnational public–private partnership (TPPP) projects primarily because of the enormous impact TPPP projects have on the environment, economic, and well‐being of people. This paper aims to develop a model that could be used to evaluate the sustainability levels of TPPP projects. The proposed model consists of four categories of social responsibility factors; these include economic, environment, social, and people‐oriented factors. Of the four categories, social factors obtained the highest coefficient (i.e., 0.255) in the TPPP sustainability index equation. The substantive model will enable practitioners to quantify the sustainability levels of TPPP projects prior to their implementations. Moreover, the outputs of this study inform private investors of the key areas to focus on to enhance sustainable development through TPPP project implementations.