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Increasing Effectiveness Of Public Private Partnerships In The Irish Construction Industry, Louis Gunnigan
Increasing Effectiveness Of Public Private Partnerships In The Irish Construction Industry, Louis Gunnigan
Doctoral
By 2003 the first Irish Public Private Partnership (PPP) projects had reached the operational stage. Media reports were emerging of significant differences in the effectiveness of these projects.
This research set out to find a means by which effectiveness of PPPs could be increased and to develop a model that would assist PPP practitioners with this task in the future. Through a literature review, the Irish PPP process was mapped, the changes encountered in the introduction of PPP were investigated and a conceptual model – based on a traditional process model - was proposed. The model was tested by examining …