Private management of public networks? Unpacking the relationship between network management strategies in infrastructure implementation

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Busscher, Tim; Verweij, Stefan; van den Brink, Margo
• 署名单位: University of Groningen
• 刊物名称: GOVERNANCE-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF POLICY ADMINISTRATION AND INSTITUTIONS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0952-1895
• DOI: 10.1111/gove.12602
• 发表日期: 2022
• 关键词: Partnerships; governance; CONTRACTS; DESIGN; IMPACT; Netherlands; transport; projects; ACTORS; PPP

摘要

With the aim to successfully implement infrastructure, implementation arrangements increasingly assign responsibilities for network management to private actors. In the literature, two types of network management strategies are distinguished: process design and institutional design. To date, research has focused on either of these strategies. Moreover, while private actors aim to use the institutional capital built in the network before the private actor was introduced, the role of institutional capital in network management is often overlooked. Taking these research gaps together, we aim to explore the relationship between the two network management strategies and the intermediating role of institutional capital. We compare three cases of infrastructure implementation from the Netherlands. We find that institutional design strategies, through setting the network rules in the implementation arrangement, can ignite a virtuous or a vicious circle, respectively, hindering or enhancing opportunities for network management through process design.