Public-Private Partnerships: Policy and Governance Challenges Facing Kazakhstan and Russia

This innovative new book examines government approaches to Public-private partnership (PPP) formation. It explores the management experience and challenges that key stakeholders involved in PPP governance face in Russia and Kazakhstan. An increasingly common method of delivering public services, PPP deployment in these two countries is still in its infancy, beginning only in 2005. Public-Private Partnerships highlights how the governments of Russia and Kazakhstan understand the nature of partnerships, which contextual features drive PPP formation and why these two nations have selected concession as the principal PPP form. The contributors provide comprehensive coverage of the management issues that present challenges in PPP delivery, including partner interaction concerns, opportunistic behaviour and approaches to risk management. The authors also discuss the legal and regulatory impediments to PPP development and the PPP critical success factors.

About the Author

Nikolai Mouraviev is a Senior Lecturer at Dundee Business School, Abertay University, Scotland, UK. Previously he has held teaching positions at KIMEP University, Kazakhstan, Wayne State University, US, and Viterbo University, US. His research focuses upon public-private partnership management in Kazakhstan and Russia and he has published extensively in this area.

Nada K. Kakabadse is Professor of Policy, Governance and Ethics at Henley Business School, University of Reading, UK.  She has co-authored twenty-one books and has published over 190 scholarly articles.  She is an elected member of the European Academy of Science and Arts and a consultant to numerous global corporations, NGOs and governments.