Measuring Project Governance of Mega Infrastructure in China: A Scale Development Study

Lan Luo, Yue Yang, Junwei Zheng and Jianxun Xie
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Lan Luo: School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, China
Yue Yang: School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, China
Junwei Zheng: Faculty of Civil Engineering and Mechanics, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650032, China
Jianxun Xie: General Manager Office, Shanghai K&Z Construction Project Management Co., Ltd., Shanghai 200092, China

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 2, 1-20

Abstract: This study builds a measurement framework of project governance for mega-infrastructure considering the institutional situation of mega-infrastructure projects in China, including contractual governance, relational governance, and governmental governance. The factors of governmental governance are identified by the method of grounded theory with six cases of megaprojects, and the measures of project governance for mega-infrastructure are refined by expert interviews. The 235 questionnaires are collected, and exploratory factor analysis is used to identify six factors of the governance mechanism for mega-infrastructure projects. The scales are developed, and reliability and validity tests are conducted. Results indicate that (1) the governmental governance mechanism includes government decision, government supervision, and government coordination. (2) The three-dimensional framework of project governance is established as “contractual–relational–governmental” in the field of mega-infrastructure. (3) The measurement scales of project governance are developed and validated for mega-infrastructure, including government regulation, government coordination, risk sharing, revenue distribution, relationship maintenance, and cultural development. This research contributes to (a) the state of the knowledge by gaining a holistic and comprehensive understanding of project governance in mega-infrastructure in China, and (b) the state of the practice by providing a tool for measuring project governance in mega-infrastructure.

Keywords: mega-projects; project governance; measurement scales; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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