Mohammed, S (2022) Effect of political corruption on project failure. A multilevel inquiry on the effects of corruption on public sector construction project failure in emerging and advanced market economies. DBA thesis, Northcentral University, USA.
Abstract
The alarming rate of project failure in developing countries’ public sector has given rise to the need to understand the causes of such failures and to provide practical solutions to solve them. The problem addressed by this research was construction project failure in advanced and emerging market economies and how it was affected by political corruption. The purpose of this correlational quantitative study was to determine whether a significant relationship existed between political corruption and public-sector construction project failure. The study was guided through the lens of the functionalist and rational choice theories of corruption. Three research questions examined the relationship between political corruption and public-sector construction project failure, and the instrumentation used to measure project failure’s constructs was the Project Implementation Profile. In contrast, the Marlowe – Crowne Social Desirability Scale was used to measure political corruption. The research methodology used was one-way ANOVA and Spearman rho’s non-parametric correlation tests to evaluate the dataset and participants’ perception of political corruption’s effect on public sector construction project failure. The study population was 38 project management professionals and contractors from the United States and Ghana. The findings indicated no statistically significant differences between political corruption and public-sector construction project failure. As a recommendation for practice, policy-makers and project practitioners should continuously seek to learn from additional future research to build on the existing findings in this study. Further research is needed to investigate the effects of administrative practices and bureaucracy in the public realm on project failure in developing countries.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Doctoral) |
|---|---|
| Thesis advisor: | Thompson, R |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Ghana; United States; corruption; developing countries; failure; market; policy; population; public sector |
| Index terms: | dataset, construction project, population, practitioner, corruption, developing country, United States, emerging market, implementation, project management, research methodology, public sector, Ghana, instrumentation, project failure |
| Subjects: | project management theory and practice, administrative law, data management, research design and methodology, development economics, Geography, production management, professional ethics, demography, practitioner, project completion, economic analysis, analytical methods, contractual arrangements |
| Topics: | Urban Studies, Digital Applications, International Construction, Research Practice, Roles and Professions, Legal Issues, Engineering Principles, Project Management, Geographical Context, Procurement |
| Descriptive scope: | 2 PC |
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