Assessment of knowledge management barriers and improvement strategies on public-private partnership projects in Nigeria
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Several studies have alluded that many PPP stakeholders lack the required PPP competencies. The incompetence, most times, has failed in many PPP projects in
developed and developing countries. One of the main pointers is the lack of
knowledge transfer on many PPP projects, which could have benefitted the PPP
procurement system. Therefore, this study aimed to assess the knowledge
management barriers and improvement strategies for public-private partnership
projects in Nigeria. The study used a quota-purposive sampling technique to select
100 construction professionals actively participating in different PPP projects in the
study location. The result revealed that the leading knowledge management barriers
include recording and tracking information on the PPP project, lack of management
support towards knowledge management on the PPP project, and lack of expertise
and skill to implement knowledge management tools. The dimensions of these
knowledge management barriers are based on the features of PPP and the lack of
KM competencies. To overcome these knowledge management barriers, the study
showed that improvement strategies such as training and development of PPP
stakeholders on knowledge management tools, legislative backing on using
knowledge tools for storing PPP projects, and participation/commitment from
relevant parties in information sharing need to be implemented. Inferential analysis
of the improvement strategies showed that most of the improvement strategies were
statistically significant. The study recommended developing PPP and KM
competencies through short and long-term training and commitment from PPP
stakeholders.
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