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Governance of uncertainty in implementing mobility innovations: A comparison of two Dutch cases

Akse, Ruben (author), Veeneman, Wijnand (author), Marchau, Vincent (author), Ritter, Simone (author)

To make the supply of transport services more attractive and sustainable, mobility suppliers and governmental actors expect much from mobility innovations. When developing and realizing these innovations, they experience considerable uncertainty about the future outcomes of implementing these innovations (1), and about other actors' intentions...

journal article 2023

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Experimenting with collaboration in the Smart City: Legal and governance structures of Urban Living Labs

Voorwinden, Astrid (author), van Bueren, Ellen (author), Verhoef, Leendert (author)

Urban Living Labs (ULLs) have been implemented in many cities, but their organizational and legal structure has not often been analyzed. ULLs aim to provide a space for different parties to research, develop, and test solutions to urban problems whilst engaging with local communities. Their experimental approach to urban innovation and to...

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Managerial agency (re)producing project governance structure and context: Public-private partnerships in the Netherlands

Benitez Avila, C.A. (author), Hartmann, Andreas (author)

Project managers activate their agentic powers in the (re)production of project governance structure and the institutional context of projects. By examining three ongoing Public Private Partnership (PPP) projects within the Dutch policy path, we provide evidence that managers aim to improve their working conditions when enacting three project...

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Management of National eID Infrastructure as a State-Critical Asset and Public-private Partnership: Learning from the Case of Estonia

Lips, Silvia (author), Tsap, Valentyna (author), Bharosa, Nitesh (author), Krimmer, Robert (author), Tammet, Tanel (author), Draheim, Dirk (author)

In the management of national electronic identity (eID) infrastructure, cooperation between public and private parties becomes more and more important, as the mutual dependencies between the provision of e-services and the provision of the national public key infrastructure (PKI) continuously increases. Yet, it is not clear which key factors...

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Big Tech Corporations and AI: A Social License to Operate and Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships in the Digital Age

Capasso, M. (author), Umbrello, S. (author)

The pervasiveness of AI-empowered technologies across multiple sectors has led to drastic changes concerning traditional social practices and how we relate to one another. Moreover, market-driven Big Tech corporations are now entering public domains, and concerns have been raised that they may even influence public agenda and research. Therefore...

book chapter 2023

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Mechanisms for protecting returns on private investments in public infrastructure projects

Demirel, H.C. (author), Leendertse, Wim (author), Volker, Leentje (author)

Despite the widespread attention for the private financing of infrastructure projects, actual empirical work on financing public-private partnerships remains limited. Especially the topics of return on equity and lenders’ cash flow control in relation to uncertainty are under-researched. The aim of this paper is to investigate and discuss the...

journal article 2022

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Operational risk allocation in urban rail transit public–private partnership projects

Xiang, Pengcheng (author), Zhang, Qianman (author), Jiang, Qiuyan (author), Liu, Z. (author)

Operation risk (OR) has affected sustainable development of urban rail transit (URT) public–private partnership (PPP) projects in China. Balanced distribution of operational risks among stakeholders (the public, government, and private companies) involved in URT PPP projects can maximize overall profit. Quantitative analysis of operational...

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Funding sustainable cities: A comparative study of Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City and Shenzhen International Low-Carbon City

Zhan, Changjie (author), de Jong, W.M. (author), de Bruijn, J.A. (author)

China has gone through a rapid process of urbanization, but this has come along with serious environmental problems. Therefore, it has started to develop various eco-cities, low-carbon cities, and other types of sustainable cities. The massive launch of these sustainable initiatives, as well as the higher cost of these projects, requires the...

journal article 2018

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A research roadmap to advance data collaboratives practice as a novel research direction

Susha, Iryna (author), Pardo, Theresa A. (author), Janssen, M.F.W.H.A. (author), Adler, Natalia (author), Verhulst, Stefaan G. (author), Harbour, Todd (author)

An increasing number of initiatives have emerged around the world to help facilitate data sharing and collaborations to leverage different sources of data to address societal problems. They are called “data collaboratives”. Data collaboratives are seen as a novel way to match real life problems with relevant expertise and data from across...

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Privatisation and institutionalisation of organisational learning in urban development pilots

Heurkens, E.W.T.M. (author)

The initiation of ‘pilots’ in urban development is often a result of changing contextual circumstances like economic market conditions or new planning legislation requiring other solutions. Pilots require actors to innovate in terms of designing plans, handling planning procedures, managing development processes, and constructing real estate....

abstract 2017

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Flexibility in PPP contracts: Dealing with potential change in the pre-contract phase of a construction project

Demirel, H.C. (author), Leendertse, W.L. (author), Volker, L. (author), Hertogh, M.J.C.M. (author)

Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) cover a range of possible relationships between public and private parties. PPP contracts are typically used in contexts of great uncertainty, such as large construction and infrastructure projects that are realized over a longer period of time. Hence, a major challenge in PPPs is to keep construction...

journal article 2016

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Managing economic feasibility and social relationships: interventions to prevent dysfunctional conflict in public–private partnerships

Lousberg, Louis (author), Wamelink, J.W.F. (author), de Caluwe, LIA (author)

Large engineering projects such as urban development projects that are organised as public–private partnerships (PPPs) often encounter critical problems that directly affect the partnerships. Literature indicates that characteristics specific to PPPs contribute to these critical problems becoming dysfunctional conflicts. Consequently, objectives...

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An Alternative Model to Determine the Financing Structure of PPP-Based Young Graduate Apartments in China: A Case Study of Hangzhou

Xu, Y. (author), Peng, Y. (author), Qian, K. (author), Chan, A.P.C. (author)

Public-private partnerships (PPP) can be employed to provide public rental housing for young graduates, which has been urgent to achieve social sustainability in China. However, few studies have been conducted to investigate the financing structure of PPPs, particularly the ratio of private investment, which is important in initiating a PPP...

journal article 2015

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Trust transparency and PPP

Lousberg, L.H.M.J. (author), Noorderhaven, N. (author)

This paper argues how transparency can increase trust and therefore indirectly enhances the results of Public Private Partnerships in complex construction projects. Complex construction projects, e.g. large infrastructure or urban development projects, with public client organizations and private contractors, frequently run into problems. Public...

conference paper 2014

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Private market PPP versus innovative public market procurement practices

Korthals Altes, W.K. (author)

Public contracts between contracting authorities and economic operators take place in a context in which initiative rests with a contracting authority publishing a contract notice defining content and scope of the contract. Many innovative contracting practices, described as public-private partnerships (PPP) take place using public contract...

report 2014

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Public-Private Collaboration: How Private Involvement can Contribute to Network Performance

Leendertse, W. (author), Lenferink, S. (author), Arts, J. (author)

raditionally, in infrastructure planning, private contractors are engaged at the end of the plan development stage on the basis of a request for proposals, after the conceptual design is finished and the main decisions have been made. They are responsible for final engineering and construction and, separately, for maintenance of the...

journal article 2012

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Private Sector-led Urban Development Projects: Management, Partnerships & Effects in the Netherlands and the UK

Heurkens, E.W.T.M. (author)

Subject of study is Private Sector-led Urban Development Projects. Such projects involve property developers taking a leading role and local authorities adopting a facilitating role in the management of the development of an urban area, based on a framework of public requirements and a formal contractual public-private role division. Such a...

doctoral thesis 2012

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Sturen op haalbaarheid en relatie: Interventies om disfunctionele conflicten bij Publiek Private Samenwerking in ruimtelijke ontwikkelingsprojecten te voorkomen

Lousberg, L.H.M.J. (author)

Introduction Conflicts are fascinating. Two urban development projects on which I was involved as a manager both entailed a close working partnership between a local authority and a project developer. Conflicts arose on a regular basis. Following a conflict, a period of mistrust and non-communication would ensue – a form of ceasefire that did...

doctoral thesis 2012

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Reactive and proactive legal instruments for government driven urban development

Hobma, F.A.M. (author)

Governments would be fairly powerless to implement their urban development plans and regulations if they were solely dependant on the voluntary compliance of citizens and companies. Public interest, which after all constitutes the foundation of regulation, would be poorly served as a consequence. Governments must be able to require compliance...

journal article 2011

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Balancing between feasibility and relationship. Interventions to prevent dysfunctionality of conflict in public private partnership projects

Lousberg, L.H.M.J. (author)

Research shows that there are many bottle-necks in Public Private Partnership (PPP) Projects in Dutch spatial development. Due to the specific properties of Public Private Partnerships, these bottle-necks can lead to dysfunctional conflicts which are damaging the project. Hence the question is: how to prevent these conflicts? Literature doesn?t...

conference paper 2011