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ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Public value creation and appropriation
mechanisms in public–private partnerships: How
does it play a role?
Claudio José Oliveira dos Reis
1,2
| Ricardo Corrêa Gomes
2,3
1
Faculty of Management, Universidade
Federal do Oeste da Bahia (UFOB), Barreiras,
Brazil
2
Postgraduate Programme in Management
(PPGA), Universidade de Brasília (UnB),
Brasília, Brazil
3
School of Business and Economics, Fundaç~
ao
Getulio Vargas (FGV), S~
ao Paulo, Brazil
Correspondence
Claudio José Oliveira dos Reis, Universidade
Federal do Oeste da Bahia (UFOB), Centro
das Humanidades, Rua da Prainha, n1326,
Morada Nobre, Barreiras—BA, CEP:
47810-047, Brazil.
Email: claudio.reis@ufob.edu.br
Funding information
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento
Científico e Tecnol
ogico, Grant/Award
Number: 381589/2018-8
Abstract
Scholars have extensively investigated public value creation
and appropriation concerning public services delivered
strictly by the government and public–private arrange-
ments, such as public–private partnerships (PPPs). How-
ever, such studies often focus on value for money and
economic performance criteria. This study examines how
public value can be created and appropriated in PPP set-
tings and how public value mechanisms can influence these
phenomena. Considering that the literature lacks an inte-
grated and structured analytical framework to assess such
phenomena, this conceptual article addresses four main-
stream PPP topics regarding public value mechanisms
(information sharing, public and private capabilities, risk
governance, and stakeholder orientation), which can be
associated with PPPs' public value creation (destruction)
and appropriation (misappropriation). Thus, this article high-
lights a need to evaluate PPPs in terms of public value crea-
tion beyond the economic performance criteria and fills the
literature gap by proposing a public value creation and
appropriation framework.
1|INTRODUCTION
A growing number of governments in both developed and developing countries have implemented public–private
partnerships (PPPs) as a response to face fiscal constraints and increase public service quality (Grimsey &
Lewis, 2017; Hodge & Greve, 2019; Levitt et al., 2019). In line with the new public management (NPM), governments
have often argued that PPPs outperform the traditional supply of public services to justify their implementation.
Received: 4 February 2021 Revised: 31 December 2021 Accepted: 4 January 2022
DOI: 10.1111/padm.12826
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