Environment protection legislation is often inadequate and poorly implemented in Africa even though literature shows that it is important for environmental protection. Furthermore, there is a paucity of studies which examine the catalytic role of legislation in the building infrastructure...

Several municipalities in developing economies, like South Africa, are currently battling to operate and maintain their service infrastructure in a cost-effective and sustainable manner. Thus, this study looked at factors affecting the management of water infrastructure operations and...

Purpose This paper intends to investigate the empirical link between governance and energy investment in PPP. To succinctly account for biases in the fixed effects (FE) model, the authors adopted different bias-corrected techniques. The majority of these techniques provided evidence that PPP...

This study investigates a dilemma that inter-organizational collectives formed to develop new infrastructure face at the project front-end: either invest in flexible designs that cope with change in requirements, this is design to evolve — at risk the extra costs upfront will not pay off if...

This study discusses the sustainability of highly-fragile, consensus-oriented developments which rely on voluntary contributions of resources. The research is grounded on a dataset of interorganizational controversies that arose during the planning of four mega infrastructure projects in the UK....