Evaluating the Effectiveness of Public-Private Partnership Policy in Iran\'s Public Sector

Abstract

Public-private partnership policy is what public organizations have taken to carry out their development projects in recent years. The purpose of the present study is to identify the effectiveness of public-private partnership policy implementation in the Iranian public sector. The statistical population of this study included those organizations of the public sector which have all adopted public-private partnership policy. Using systematic random sampling method, 126 organizations were selected through Morgan’s table. To collect data, researcher-made questionnaires were distributed among the subjects. Based on such factors as economic efficiency, financial justice, redistributive justice, compatibility with public ethics, adaptability and accountability, results show that the effectiveness of public-private partnership policy implementation is significant. Public-private partnership project holders can improve the context for developing and implementing public-private partnership projects by emphasizing and applying the suggested solutions of this research.

Keywords

• public-private partnership
• evaluation
• economic efficiency
• financial and redistributive justice
• alignment with public ethics
• adaptability
• accountability.