Managing Public-Private Partnerships: Influencing Processes and Institutional Context of Public-Private Partnerships

The role of collaborative partnerships in industry innovation: lessons from New Zealand's dairy sector

“…Partnerships involve agents from different actor groups (Brinkhoff, 2009;Hartwich, Gonzalez, & Vieira, 2005;Klijn & Teisman, 2001). There are one-toone partnerships, but generally the relationships are more complex, involving a range of technology and knowledge providers as well as private sector agents and government agencies, thus allowing exchange of knowledge among a diversity of actors.…”

New Perspectives on Investment in Infrastructures

“…In this case three elements -a dominant public monopoly, a dominant private enterprise approach and a joint approach of public, private and not-for profit companies and organisations -combined with an interesting strategy of stakeholder management. We reconstruct the process of upgrading into three rounds (Teisman 2000). Assuming that general knowledge about the traditional public monopolist approach is sufficient, I will focus on the second round in which the private sector dominated the process and especially the third round, where the upgrading process was located on the edge of the public and private domains.…”

Managing trust and relationships in PPPs: some Australian experiences

“…For instance, it was shown that PPPs allow public agencies to mobilize private funding for public services where fiscal problems have caused resource crises (Bovaird, 2004). Others suggested that it is the resources, such as new technologies, a private company brings to its partnership that creates gains for public agencies (Klijn and Teisman, 2000). What is clear is that PPPs operate at the boundary of the public and private sectors and represent a form of collaboration which can achieve what each acting alone cannot (Gerrard, 2001).…”