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Christina, D, Loosemore, M and Newton, S (2016) The Dimensionality of Public Trust in Public Private Partnership Projects. In: Chan, P W and Neilson, C J (Eds.), Proceedings 32nd Annual ARCOM Conference, 5-7 September 2016, Manchester UK. Association of Researchers in Construction Management, 903–910.

  • Type: Conference Proceedings
  • Keywords: trust, community, public private partnerships, dimensionality, risk
  • ISBN/ISSN: 978-0-9955463-0-1
  • URL: http://www.arcom.ac.uk/-docs/proceedings/364df45544106bfb09a06935e293c90c.pdf
  • Abstract:

    Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) are becoming increasingly popular around the world as a mechanism to deliver economic and social infrastructure at a time of constrained government resources. Recurrent global concerns around the politicisation, transparency and failure of numerous PPP have fuelled community mistrust in official messages about the economic, social and environmental risks and opportunities of these projects. While the subject of community trust in government initiatives has been explored by social psychologists in numerous controversial policy areas such as nuclear power, PPPs have been ignored in these analyses. While the subject of risk in PPPs has been explored extensively from an ‘insider’s’ perspective, the challenge of managing ‘outside’ community concerns about these projects, has been largely neglected. This is somewhat surprising given the increasing popularity of PPPs around the world and the many controversies which surround them. To address this gap in knowledge, a new conceptual framework based on Portinga and Pidgeon’s (2003) Dimensionality of Trust theory is presented. Using this theoretical lens, a number of important new propositions are derived which add to the growing research agenda in construction management around PPPs and community perceptions of risk associated with controversial construction projects.