Publication Type

Journal Article

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

7-2014

Abstract

Governments around the world, but especially in Europe, have increasingly used private sector involvement in developing, financing and providing public health infrastructure and service delivery through public–private partnerships (PPPs). Reasons for this uptake are manifold ranging from rising expenditures for refurbishing, maintaining and operating public assets, and increasing constraints on government budgets stifle, seeking innovation through private sector acumen and aiming for better risk management. Although PPPs have attracted practitioner and academic interest over the last two decades, there has been no attempt to integrate the general and health management literature to provide a holistic view of PPPs in healthcare delivery. This study analyzes over 1400 publications from a wide range of disciplines over a 20-year time period. We find that despite the scale and significance of the phenomenon, there is relatively limited conceptualization and in-depth empirical investigation. Based on bibliographic and content analyses, we synthesize formerly dispersed research perspectives into a comprehensive multi-dimensional framework of public-private partnerships. In so doing, we provide new directions for further research and practice.

Keywords

Public–private partnership, Public and private actors, Health management, Management practice, Systematic literature review, Content analysis, Bibliographic analysis

Discipline

Business | Strategic Management Policy

Research Areas

Strategy and Organisation

Publication

Social Science and Medicine

Volume

113

First Page

110

Last Page

119

ISSN

0277-9536

Identifier

10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.03.037

Publisher

Elsevier

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.03.037

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