TITLE:
Development and Application of an Inter-Organizational PPP Knowledge Transfer Effectiveness Model for Knowledge Sourced in Public Sector Organizations
AUTHORS:
Geoffrey Aerts, Elvira Haezendonck
KEYWORDS:
Knowledge Transfer, Public-Private Partnerships, Public Sector, Knowledge Management, Project Management, Public Procurement, Information Asymmetries
JOURNAL NAME:
American Journal of Industrial and Business Management,
Vol.7 No.5,
May
27,
2017
ABSTRACT: The research aim is to develop and apply the
conceptual inter-organizational knowledge transfer effectiveness (IOKTE) model
to the inter-organizational transfer of Public-Private Partnership (PPP)
related knowledge between public sector organizations in Flanders. The model
assumes a relationship between an individual’s ability to make PPP-related
decisions and the extent to which knowledge is sought after, applied and shared
in an inter-organisational manner within the public sector. The inter-organizational
transfer of knowledge studied in this article is specific to PPP in Flanders
and studied for public sector actors active at diverse policy levels. The aim
is to uncover the extent to which the current system of inter-organizational knowledge
transfer fits the user’s satisfaction, expressed as the extent to which the use
of the system improves the perceived decision-making on PPPs. The results
indicate that searching for, sharing and using PPP-related knowledge sourced in
public sector organizations improve the perceived decision-making ability. The
research establishes that the current public sector PPP knowledge transfer
system is perceived as being effective, yet for the assessment of its
efficiency, insufficient data is found. Issues that stand to be improved are
the fragmentation of the knowledge assets and the access across policy levels.