Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an introduction to the Special Issue on public private partnerships in transport: theory and practice, to justify its need, to highlight key issues and propose future research in response to current and future challenges....

Purpose The zero carbon building (ZCB) approach has gained momentum in improving energy performance and reducing carbon emissions. Despite policy promotion for achieving zero carbon, innovative business models (BMs) are needed to overcome the challenges and accelerate the ZCB uptake. However,...

Examines the practical experience of benchmarking in the UK local government sector during the period leading to the introduction of an important policy initiative for local government under “New Labour”. Argues that, under conditions of fiscal control, benchmarking has been subsumed under...

Aims at developing an analytical framework for benchmarking value management. After a review of the extant literature on value management, identifies several critical success factors and related performance metrics. These critical success factors, such as management commitment, facilitator’s...

Explores issues surrounding the recent evolution of benchmarking in the UK public sector with particular regard to local authorities. Argues that what is being done in the name of benchmarking in UK local authorities is fundamentally different to the current understanding of benchmarking...

Given the emphasis in today's environment on customer focus, stakeholders’ interests, public‐sector organisational performance and other methods of assessment are employed to address issues in the new public management and prevailing managerialism in measurement of public‐sector...