Research on the Formulation Process of Networks of Small and Medium Enterprises’ in a Local Community and the Consequent Results regarding Public Private Partnership Projects

Abstract

Regarding public private partnerships (PPP), Machida(2022) demonstrates how organizations change to establish the practice of implementing public private partnership projects in the public organizations procuring the projects. Contrastingly, the existing literature has not explored the formulation process of the contributing factor of the implementation of public private partnership projects from the private sector’s perspective. Meanwhile, in Japan, revitalizing the local economy by implementing public private partnership projects is discussed as a crucial issue. To this end, it is among the effective options to formulate networks of SMEs in a local community since the bidding consortium must consist of various industry categories such as design, construction, and operating.Therefore, this article aims to explore the process of formulating networks of small and medium enterprises in a local community and the consequent results regarding public private partnership projects through the case study of a PPP platform in F City. This article is expected to contribute to exploring the formulation process of the contributing factor of the implementation of public private partnership projects from the private sector’s perspective.