Jinbo Song

• Professor
• Professor at Dalian University of Technology

The last decade has witnessed rapid development in the literature on public–private partnerships (PPPs); however, there have been few attempts to map the global research in this domain. To identify the state of the field and trends in PPP research, the CiteSpace software package was used in this study to conduct a series of content analyses and exa...

With the upgrading of living standards and rapid urbanization throughout the world, municipal solid waste (MSW) treatment has become a ubiquitous environmental issue. Incineration can reduce the quantity and volume of MSW, save land resources and generate power, and it has been considered an effective means of MSW treatment. However, a variety of o...

In governing public–private partnerships (PPPs), transferring control rights to the private sectors and building trust among partners are recognized as solutions to improve efficiency and adaptability. However, what contexts would fit into the adoption of these solutions remains unclear. Building on the relevant literature on project attributes and...

This study explores the form and sources of strategic interaction in China's public services among local governments. The results indicate the existence of positive strategic interaction in provincial public services, with multiple sources of interaction, ranging from a direct mechanism, such as the spillover effect of yardstick competition among l...

While project governance research is burgeoning, the prevalence of a structural focus and project business perspective may impede the understanding of governing practices and contextual interaction. Therefore, we adopt a multidisciplinary systematic review and begin by scrutinizing the main topics, theories, and methodologies of project governance...

Fostering sustainable development through green supply chains is of paramount significance. Government subsidies emerge as a successful strategy for motivating businesses to actively participate in such eco-friendly practices. This study employs prospect theory and an evolutionary game model to analyze the transition toward carbon peaking and neutr...

The severe water shortage and pollution problems have become the bottleneck restricting the sustainable development of the economy and society. River basin ecological compensation is an important way to solve transboundary water pollution. To increase the cooperation willingness between governments and enterprises, and clarify the operation mechani...

Long- or short-term exposure to air pollution would distort human's cognitive function which has aroused widespread concern in interdisciplinary fields. It furtherly seems rational to assume that air pollution may affect energy use in public buildings. However, the overlooks of the potential impacts of air pollution on energy use would result in su...

With the increase in household income enhancing people’s expectations for life comfort, the demand for central heating in Hot summer and cold winter areas (HSCWs) has increased. This study aims to explore whether it is appropriate to promote central heating in HSCWs from the perspectives of inequality and reverse subsidies. Reverse Subsidy Dilemma...

Purpose The development of China's solar photovoltaic (PV) industry is in a transition period from pursuing scale and speed to focusing on efficiency and quality. “Smart PV projects” (SPVPs) were proposed by the ministries of the Chinese government in 2018 to encourage intelligent upgrading and to fill the gaps in traditional PV projects. However,...

Natural resource assets-liabilities accounting is an essential theoretical and institutional innovation in constructing China's ecological civilization. As the primary account of the natural resources balance sheet, energy resources have typicality and representativeness. Unlike previous research focused on theoretical and practical research, this...

A growing number of infrastructure projects in developing countries are being provided by private firms through public-private partnership (PPP). We compare rigid and flexible contracts for PPP projects under demand uncertainty, the former of which is not allowed to be adjusted through renegotiation when demand uncertainty materializes while the la...

The anti-epidemic supply chain plays an important role in the prevention and control of the COVID-19 pandemic. Prior research has focused on studying the facility location, inventory management, and route optimization of the supply chain by using certain parameters and models. Nevertheless, uncertainty, as a vital influence factor, greatly affects...

Rapid urbanisation has created huge social and economic benefits in some developing countries. However, it has also created unsustainable problems such as land waste. The efficiency improvement of urban construction land use (UCLU) is a breakthrough in realising the sustainable development of cities in the future. Given the chain correlation betwee...

During the period of rapid urban growth worldwide, China's urbanization process has soared. Based on China's National New-Type Urbanization Plan (NNUP), this paper takes 11 national-level urban agglomerations (UAs) as the research area, aiming to conduct a dynamic quantitative analysis of the sustainable development (SD) level of UAs and reveal inh...

In order to examine the effect of technology infrastructure investment on technological innovation capability in China, this paper has theoretically analysed the mechanism of technological infrastructure investment affecting technological innovation capability, and then established a dynamic spatial durbin model (SDM) to analyse the direct and indi...

Ship emissions are essential sources of air pollution and have received extensive attention from both academia and industry in recent years. Provision of power supply to the berthed ships is often preferable to improve the air quality of port areas. This paper first proposes a network-based model to capture the choice behaviour of container ships o...

Purpose With the growing demand for infrastructure and public services in recent years, PPP-UP have attracted a great deal of attention. However, while the user focuses on the payment for use and the private sector is concerned with its return on investment, the public sector pays more attention to the efficient utilization of public funds. In orde...

With the upgrading of living standards and rapid urbanization around the globe, waste treatment has become a ubiquitous environmental issue. Increased waste generation and narrowed prospects for landfill and composting have brought strong growth prospects for the waste-to-energy (WtE) industry. WtE is considered an effective method for waste treatm...

Residents’ concerns and feelings play pivotal roles in smoothly promoting urban redevelopment. Anxiety, as an intuitive feeling toward uncertainties, generally exists among residents who are confronted with redevelopment, and this feeling has gradually attracted scholars’ attention. However, relatively few studies have focused on the multidimension...

Based on non-radial directional distance function, this paper measures the provincial total factor energy efficiency in China during the period from 2000 to 2015. And then, this paper analyzes the stage characteristics and driving forces of energy efficiency convergence based on the improving of traditional beta-convergence model. The empirical res...

How to use foreign direct investment (FDI) to achieve sustainable development of resources, environment and economy in China has become an increasingly important proposition. Previous studies mainly focused on the relationship between FDI quantity and energy efficiency, and neglected the important role of FDI quality in improving energy efficiency....

The response to the penalty for an environmental violation on the firm level is a matter of reactive corporate environmental practices, about which the existence of a penalty is critical for environmental public policy. We propose that a penalty acts as a deterrence signal to enhance the perceived threat of legal punishment and the peer effect serv...

With the wide implementation of public-private partnerships (PPPs) in infrastructure projects and public services, numerous studies related to PPPs have emerged in the past two decades. Although several literature reviews of PPP research have been conducted, there still appears to be a lack of quantitative and visualized investigation and multidisc...

In the early termination of public-private partnership (PPP) projects, compensation is considered a core issue that greatly affects the interests of the government and the private sector. To address the early termination that is frequently caused by government default or voluntary buyback, this paper proposes an ex-ante compensation mechanism using...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effect of environmental policy China’s national program to address climate change on carbon emission efficiency. Design Based on the directional distance function, the provincial total factor carbon emission efficiency was measured. Then, the authors analyzed the effect of environmental policy...

PPPs have become a popular way to supply infrastructure around the world. However, compared with developed countries, most developing countries have failed to attract private investment over the past years. Risk allocation and governance environment (e.g., the extent of public participation, the level of political stability, the quality of public s...

Based on the data of 30 Chinese provinces from 2011 to 2014, we use a meta-frontier data envelopment analysis model and a symbolic regression method to study wind power generation efficiency and its influencing factors. From our analytical results, the main findings are as follows: (1) The wind power generation efficiency of the eastern region is t...

In BOT road project, the government offers a firm an ex ante contract, which specifies toll price and concession period based on the forecasted demand. When the demand states are observed in the operation period, the government may request renegotiation to adapt the initial contract to the realized demand state. By considering the loss aversion beh...

The public-private partnership (PPP) mode is increasingly being applied to implement infrastructure projects worldwide to alleviate the shortage of government funds and experience. However, many PPP projects encounter crises and are even terminated before the expiration of the PPP contract due to a variety of factors that differ from general risks....

Build-operate-transfer (BOT) highway projects are widespread around the world. However, many BOT highway projects are terminated before the expiry of the concession period for a variety of reasons, such as unreasonable decisions and a lack of a risk allocation mechanism. As the most concerning issue for the government and private sector, compensati...

Revenue uncertainty and volatility are problems in BOT highway projects because it is difficult to predict accurately future traffic volume. In high traffic demands, the absence of an excess revenue allocation mechanism leads to the private sector obtaining huge profits, and a high revenue risk to the government and the public. To solve this proble...

Awell-functioning construction industry is a prerequisite for the development process to take place. In this regard, the aim of this study is to identify the most frequent, severe, and important causes of schedule delays affecting public constructions projects in Burkina Faso to enhance the managerial capability of project managers. This research w...

This paper studies the deterrence of governmental environmental regulation from the perspective of peer effect. With the financial data of listed companies and firm-level penalties manually collected in the period between 2007 and 2015, the Heckman model is adopted to test the deterrence from the target firms to peer firms, the empirical results sh...

Build-operate-transfer (BOT) arrangements are increasing in popularity with the development of the waste-to-energy (WTE) incineration industry in China and many other countries. For BOT WTE incineration projects, decision-making regarding the concession period and the subsidy is critical for balancing the potential interests of the government, the...

Recently, the BOT (build-operate-transfer) scheme has been garnering increasing attention from both academic and practical fields. In order to make the decision-making more scientific and effective, this paper takes traffic BOT projects as research objectives, and proposes a dynamic game model of complete information to balance the benefits of the...

In order to solve the issue concerning the lack of reliable and complete evaluation for BOT (build-operate-transfer) project service quality supervision, a reasonable service quality index system and an effective evaluation method are discussed in this paper. Based on experts interview and literature review, a BOT project service quality index syst...

BOT financing mode has been applied widely around the world at present, and how to analyze, evaluate BOT projects performance scientifically, objectively and comprehensively has become a hot research topic. This paper reviews BOT projects performance on evaluation scope, evaluation index and evaluation method through collecting and contrasting rela...

Concession period as a key parameter in build-operate-transfer (BOT) concession contract, has been focused on in many studies in recent years. Some risks and uncertainties need to be considered while determining the concession period of BOT projects, typically in such fields as municipal solid waste incineration for generating electricity. This pap...

Concession period is a key parameter in build-operate-transfer (BOT) contract. Previous studies have provided effective methodologies and theory for the development of decision methods of concession period. Nevertheless, it appears that risk and uncertainty has been little considered in studying the way to determine the concession period of BOT pro...

To be successful in this globally competitive and rapidly changing situation, organizational changes, which must be consistent with the implementation of manufacturing technology, are required. This study proposes that human factors in the organization have improved the implementation effects of AMT. Based on a brief review of relevant literatures,...