PMID- 33868103
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20210421
IS  - 1664-1078 (Print)
IS  - 1664-1078 (Electronic)
IS  - 1664-1078 (Linking)
VI  - 12
DP  - 2021
TI  - Relationship Orientation, Justice Perception, and Opportunistic Behavior in PPP 
      Projects: An Empirical Study From China.
PG  - 635447
LID - 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.635447 [doi]
LID - 635447
AB  - An equal and high-quality partnership between public and private sectors is 
      essential to the sustainable development of public-private partnership (PPP) 
      projects. However, in the special social circumstance in China, the public sector 
      has a strong voice in PPP projects. According to the existing research on PPP 
      project failure, the government's dishonest performance and negative cooperative 
      attitude and the private sector's speculative behavior of concealing information 
      will lead to termination or even failure of project. The attitude and behavior 
      that reflect the relationship orientation of public sector may determine whether 
      the private sector adopts an opportunistic behavior. However, few studies have 
      revealed the mechanism of relationship orientation on opportunism in PPP 
      projects. This paper proposes the connotation of the public sector's relationship 
      orientation and designs a measurement scale from three aspects: emotional 
      relationship orientation, instrumental relationship orientation, and rent-seeking 
      relationship orientation. Based on the data from large construction enterprises, 
      financial institutions and investors, and scholars with practical experience in 
      PPP projects, this paper explores the mechanism of the public sector's 
      relationship orientation on the private sector's justice perception and 
      opportunistic behavior by using the structural equation model (SEM). The results 
      show that the public sector's relationship orientation significantly affects the 
      formation and development of the private sector's justice perception and 
      opportunistic behavior, justice perception plays a mediating role in the process 
      of relationship orientation acting on opportunistic behavior, and the 
      instrumental relationship orientation is more conducive to reducing the 
      opportunistic behavior. The results provide new ideas for changing the public 
      sector's concept and attitude and regulating behavior in PPP projects.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2021 Feng, Hao and Li.
FAU - Feng, Guoli
AU  - Feng G
AD  - School of Economics and Management, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China.
FAU - Hao, Shengyue
AU  - Hao S
AD  - School of Economics and Management, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China.
FAU - Li, Xiaoguang
AU  - Li X
AD  - School of Economics, Peking University, Beijing, China.
AD  - China International Economic Consultants, Beijing, China.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20210401
PL  - Switzerland
TA  - Front Psychol
JT  - Frontiers in psychology
JID - 101550902
PMC - PMC8047633
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - SEM
OT  - justice perception
OT  - opportunistic behavior
OT  - public-private partnership
OT  - relationship orientation
COIS- XL was employed by the company China International Economic Consultants. The 
      remaining authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any 
      commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential 
      conflict of interest.
EDAT- 2021/04/20 06:00
MHDA- 2021/04/20 06:01
PMCR- 2021/04/01
CRDT- 2021/04/19 06:21
PHST- 2020/11/30 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2021/02/22 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2021/04/19 06:21 [entrez]
PHST- 2021/04/20 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2021/04/20 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2021/04/01 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.635447 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Front Psychol. 2021 Apr 1;12:635447. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.635447. eCollection 
      2021.