Review Article

A Holistic Review of Public-Private Partnership Literature Published between 2008 and 2018

Table 10

Summary of key issues in the literature sample.

Key issuesReferencesNumber of articlesPercentage

Project governance (PG)Guarini and Battisti [75]; Opara and Elloumi [76]30322.7
Risk allocation and management (RAM)[77, 78]16612.4
Critical success factors (CSF)[79, 80]1209.0
Performance evaluation (PE)[81, 82]1148.7
PPP models and applications (PMA)[83, 84]18814.1
Economics and financing (EF)[85, 86]916.8
Contract management (CM)[87, 88]826.1
Procurement management (PM)[89, 90]453.4
Legislation and legal issues (LLI)[91, 92]403.0
Hindering PPP factors (HPF)[93, 94]342.5
Innovation in PPP (IP)[95, 96]463.4
Value for money (VFM)[97, 98]262.0
Concession-related models, pricing, and periods (CMPP)[99, 100]181.3
Others[101, 102]624.6