Critical Success Factors of Public-Private Partnership for Urban Infrastructure Projects in Saudi Arabia

Abstract

The public-private partnership (PPP) is a paradigm that upsurges the broad spectrum of financial perks of infrastructure deliverables. It is perceptibly becoming comprehensively acclaimed as the remedy to the significant bottleneck in PPP-urban infrastructure projects’ (UIP) service delivery in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). The empirical initiatives have scarcely examined the cross-sectoral dimensions of crucial success determinants in KSA’s PPP-UIP. Hence, this paper seeks to investigate critical success factors (CSFs), portraying an approach to augmenting the prospect of successful PPP-UIP in KSA. Twenty-eight probable CSFs are revealed after examining a large corpus of literature, whittled down to 15 CSFs, banking on UIP managers’ convictions, and conducting focus groups. In this context, a structured questionnaire matrix was devised premised on the hierarchical model constituted following a thorough literature review. The current study subsequently utilized the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) methodology to examine beneficial characteristics in the KSA’s UIP. Findings obtained in this paper equip decision-makers with an insightful perspective slanted towards constructing further productive approaches for implementing PPP-UIP in KSA successfully.