Stakeholder Influence Analysis of Public-Private Partnership Projects from the Perspective of Communication, Workflow and Contract

Abstract

Abstract:

In order to explore what important stakeholders there are and what factors determine the influence of stakeholders in Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) projects, two highway PPP projects are used as case study for further investigation. The research establishes multiple PPP social network models to analyze the social, authority and political influence of project stakeholders embedded within the project communication, work, and contractual relationships. Multiple regression analysis is then used to explore the relationships between influence and stakeholder positions in different types of networks. The result shows that the social network model can effectively identify the core and periphery stakeholders in project network. The stakeholders' influence can also be determined by the central index of various types of networks. The stakeholder's position in the project network has a large role in determining how much influence project stakeholders have. Suggestions for PPP stakeholder management are proposed.

Key words: public private partnership, stakeholder management, social network theory

Peng Wei, Chen Jianguo, Wu Di, Shen Liangfa, Cui Qingbin, Amir Ghorban. Stakeholder Influence Analysis of Public-Private Partnership Projects from the Perspective of Communication, Workflow and Contract[J]. , 2017, 29(5): 205-215.

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