To Ally or Not? The Critical Factors of a New Alliance Model in Urban Infrastructure Projects

• Authors: Pekka Valkama , Lasse Oulasvirta , Ilari Karppi
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The research explains the background of an alliance model which is a new collaborative project concept in urban infrastructure investments and reviews stakeholder views of applied alliances based on a case study analys­ing project experiences in the city of Tampere, Finland. The alliance model is considered a potential solution for some of the chronic productivity and other problems of the building industry and the classic difficulties in public-sector investment projects, but the model fits a purpose primarily only in publicly funded, technically challenging and sufficiently large projects. The alliance model has initiation, development and implementation phases, and of these phases, the interviewed experts named the development phases as particularly critical, as team spirit, shared ethos, and joint goals must all be built in that phase before the actual collaboration between contract parties can be initiated.

Keywords

EN

alliance model; public-private partnership; building contract; urban infrastructure investment

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: International Studies. Interdisciplinary Political and Cultural Journal
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 24
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 57-78

Dates

published

2019-12-30

Contributors

author

Pekka Valkama

• University of Vaasa, School of Management

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5915-9070

author

Lasse Oulasvirta

• Tampere University, Faculty of Management and Business

• https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4195-1331

author

Ilari Karppi

• Tampere University, Faculty of Management and Business

• https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3371-7991

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Identifiers

DOI

10.18778/1641-4233.24.05