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Casady, C B and Baxter, D (2020) Pandemics, public-private partnerships (PPPs), and force majeure | COVID-19 expectations and implications. Construction Management and Economics, 38(12), 1077–85.

Denny-Smith, G, Williams, M and Loosemore, M (2020) Assessing the impact of social procurement policies for Indigenous people. Construction Management and Economics, 38(12), 1139–57.

Hajikazemi, S, Aaltonen, K, Ahola, T, Aarseth, W and Andersen, B (2020) Normalising deviance in construction project organizations: a case study on the collapse of Carillion. Construction Management and Economics, 38(12), 1122–38.

Ju, L, Zhao, W, Wu, C, Li, H and Ning, X (2020) Abusive supervisors and employee work-to-family conflict in Chinese construction projects: how does family support help?. Construction Management and Economics, 38(12), 1158–78.

Rodger, D, Callaghan, N and Thomson, C S (2020) The loosening control of social housing: creating a holistic retrofit system for an ageing population through the lens of governmentality. Construction Management and Economics, 38(12), 1101–21.

Sherratt, F, Sherratt, S and Ivory, C (2020) Challenging complacency in construction management research: the case of PPPs. Construction Management and Economics, 38(12), 1086–100.

  • Type: Journal Article
  • Keywords: Academic compliance; critical theory; economics; PPP; PFI;
  • ISBN/ISSN: 0144-6193
  • URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/01446193.2020.1744674
  • Abstract:
    Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) are joint ventures in which the private sector works in partnership with government bodies to deliver public sector projects with the intention to deliver them more quickly, efficiently and with better value for money. They are also one of the most contentious project delivery mechanisms to have been mobilised in recent decades. Research has demonstrated the lack of realised value within many such projects, yet construction management academics continue to examine ways of increasing, implementing and optimising this approach in practice, even encouraging its adoption worldwide despite growing social and political dissatisfaction. Here, we go beyond what we see as myopic construction management perspectives, placing our body of work firmly within wider economic, political and social contexts. We challenge uncritical academic compliance with a process that demonstrably contributes to economic inequalities, opportunism and exploitation. We confront the lack of criticality in construction management research of PPPs, and call for construction management academics to broaden their research focus and engage in more robust critique and analysis of construction systems, as they are realised in practice.