Globalization in Water Infrastructure: A Network of Public-Private Strategic Alliances

Yasaman Sarabi and Paola Tubaro ()
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Yasaman Sarabi: HWU - Heriot-Watt University [Edinburgh]
Paola Tubaro: CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, ENSAE Paris - École Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration Économique - Groupe ENSAE-ENSAI - Groupe des Écoles Nationales d'Économie et Statistique - IP Paris - Institut Polytechnique de Paris, CREST - Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique - ENSAI - Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Analyse de l'Information [Bruz] - Groupe ENSAE-ENSAI - Groupe des Écoles Nationales d'Économie et Statistique - X - École polytechnique - IP Paris - Institut Polytechnique de Paris - ENSAE Paris - École Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration Économique - Groupe ENSAE-ENSAI - Groupe des Écoles Nationales d'Économie et Statistique - IP Paris - Institut Polytechnique de Paris - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: Water is a key sector with major repercussions on health, the natural environment, and the economy. Public ownership and control of water infrastructures are the norm in most countries. Yet some private water companies emerged as early as the nineteenth century. In the last few decades, many governments, especially in developing countries, have sought the involvement of the private sector. This work contributes to the extant literature by developing a multi-disciplinary framework to look at private participation in the sector in terms of the overall trends of governments and companies' tendencies to form strategic alliances on water projects. In this study, the World Bank database on Private Participation in Infrastructure (PPI) is used and Social Network Analysis and GLM are implemented as analytical tools. This study finds that alliances between governments and companies on PPI projects are positively impacted by positional and relational embeddedness. Furthermore, governments and companies with a shared language and those that are geographically proximate are more likely to engage in PPI projects. A key policy finding is that on average, countries engaged in more PPI projects have a higher Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 (Clean Water & Sanitation for All) category score.

Keywords: Private Participation in Infrastructure; Water infrastructures; Social Network Analysis; Interorganizational Relationships; Public-Private Partnerships (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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Published in Critical perspectives on international business, 2025, ⟨10.1108/cpoib-11-2024-0140⟩

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DOI: 10.1108/cpoib-11-2024-0140

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