Identifying the Critical Success Factors of PPP Projects in China
Description
PPP is a bridge to combine the strengths of the government and private sectors in order to deliver better infrastructure and services,thus, the government and private sectors both play a pivotal role in PPP projects, but the reasons for their participation are completely different. Their respective differences in interests lead government and private sectors to different perceptions as to what a “good” PPP project is, which causes their perceptive distinguished in their understandings of CSFs for PPP projects. This dataset is collected by questionnaires from civil servants and specialists in enterprises in Henan China, which represents the government and private sectors of PPP projects. It can be used to identify the conflict of interests and core contradictions in the current PPP projects by comparing the differences in perspective with respect to the critical success factors of PPP projects between the government and private sectors in China. SPSS 24.0 and Excel are the main software tools used for data analysis of the study. The statistical methods used included the Cronbach reliability test to determine the reliability of collected questionnaire information, the mean analysis compared the rank differences of 24 critical success factors between government and enterprises, the Kaisex-Meyer-Olkin (KMO) test, the Bartlett test, and factor analysis based on principal component analysis to reduce the dimension of the 24 critical success factors, which is helpful for summarizing the main influencing factors of PPP projects. The study results shows that there are differences in perspective with respect to four variables between the government and the private sectors in terms of the profitability of the project, sufficient political support, shorter life cycle and the operation and management experience of related projects, which reflects the shortcomings of the Chinese PPP model schemes in the preamble stage and the operation stage. Consequently, there are two unique contributions of this dataset:firstly,it offers a comparison of perception differences between the government and private sectors, which are the most important stakeholders of PPP projects. Secondly, by choosing Chinese PPP as the research object, this research not only attempts to identify the main hindrances to the development of PPP in China, but also to provide a theoretical and practical reference for PPP projects in the world.