Construction industry highly relies upon the human resources to complete construction tasks. Thereby, overall profitability of the company may affect the human motivation and vice versa. Further, the inflation of a country can have pernicious implications to the profitability. This project...

Occupant behaviour has a significant impact on the overall energy performance of a building. The lack of awareness, misinformation and misunderstanding of the buildings’ systems and features are some of the key elements that impact the use of energy in buildings. This paper presents the...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to investigate whether consumer values influence work-related attitudes. Employees often feel conflict among different aspects of their lives. Although most extant research has focused on the effect of family values on work attitudes, we investigate whether a...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to develop a best practice framework for PPP implementation for construction projects in Ghana. Design/methodology/approach: This study adopted a multi-stage critical review and analysis of past studies on the attributes of PPP implementation (i.e. critical...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explore the motivations of governments for adopting unsolicited proposals for public–private partnership (PPP) project implementation. Design/methodology/approach: A comprehensive review of literature was conducted to derive a list of motivations for...

Purpose: Conflict between project parties is among the major risk factors in public–private partnership (PPP) in developing countries that has, in extreme cases, led to the failure or distress of many PPP projects. This paper aims to explore conflict prevention measures for PPPs in developing...